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Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium? (spectrum.ieee.org)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Amazing stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

https://piped.video/watch?v=YyzQsVzKylE

Lithium batteries scale power and capacity at the same time. Flow batteries can scale power and capacity independently.

The advantage of flow batteries is that they can have enormous capacities without the added cost of upgrading the power, making it ideal for grid scale storage.

Even if this new flow battery reaches the energy density of a lithium battery, and can output sufficient power, it would still need to reach price parity to be competitive.