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Lithium-ion batteries are not the best option for energy storage
The world requires a lot of cheap batteries to create electricity is clean energy, but studies are not conducted in the area, said Donald Sadoway from MIT, the founder of a startup Ambri. Sadowa, as other companies (Eos Energy Storage, Aqiuon, Sun Catalytix) tries to solve the problem of energy storage. These startups share the desire to create a cheap method of storage of energy from common materials. "That thing was cheap as dirt, do it out of the mud, said Sadoway speech during the conference EmTech MIT 2016. — Using rare elements, this does not happen."
However, the movement towards this goal is slow, writes MIT Technology Review. These startups not just to develop new types of electrochemical devices of common substances to build the final product, affordable and reliable. And in their way are many obstacles. For example, sealing steel tanks, which is itself a liquid battery faced Ambri.
Subsidies could help to solve most of them, but the government already spends $5 billion a year on energy. "Now the vast majority of financing technology of batteries is increasing improvement of lithium-ion batteries, he explains. — We must have the courage to say that our ambitious ideas will have a much greater impact if we will succeed".
Despite the obvious tendency to decrease of production cost of lithium-ion batteries and forecasts that "commercial and industrial use Li-ion batteries for energy storage will become economically meaningful in the next 3-5 years, assuming that prices will continue to fall," Ambri co-founders believe that their technology is able to further increase the market and can "easily compete even with the improved lithium-ion batteries that now exist".
On the creation of cheap and safe water battery on the basis of "Prussian blue" are scientists at MIT. Proving the fundamental possibility of such technology of storage of energy, scientists have found a method for the production of thick porous electrodes with adjustable power output. published
Source: hightech.fm/2016/10/22/better-batteries
However, the movement towards this goal is slow, writes MIT Technology Review. These startups not just to develop new types of electrochemical devices of common substances to build the final product, affordable and reliable. And in their way are many obstacles. For example, sealing steel tanks, which is itself a liquid battery faced Ambri.
Subsidies could help to solve most of them, but the government already spends $5 billion a year on energy. "Now the vast majority of financing technology of batteries is increasing improvement of lithium-ion batteries, he explains. — We must have the courage to say that our ambitious ideas will have a much greater impact if we will succeed".
Despite the obvious tendency to decrease of production cost of lithium-ion batteries and forecasts that "commercial and industrial use Li-ion batteries for energy storage will become economically meaningful in the next 3-5 years, assuming that prices will continue to fall," Ambri co-founders believe that their technology is able to further increase the market and can "easily compete even with the improved lithium-ion batteries that now exist".
On the creation of cheap and safe water battery on the basis of "Prussian blue" are scientists at MIT. Proving the fundamental possibility of such technology of storage of energy, scientists have found a method for the production of thick porous electrodes with adjustable power output. published
Source: hightech.fm/2016/10/22/better-batteries
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