Iron-Air battery uses earth abundant cheap iron & exploits irons propensity to form rust or iron oxides with air! A proprietary battery cathode material developed by Nant for their Zinc Air battery technology purchases as a group of patents & lots of cathodes for preproduction testing of the emerging Iron Air battery tech.
Renewable energy generation, solar, wind, wave, geothermal, hydro, solar thermal or PV have issues with capacity factor & load following that required a grid energy storage solution of which there are many emerging applied technologies.
I was watching a YouTube video called New Iron-air Battery outperforms best Lithium Ion tech. Cheap. Abundant. Non-toxic & Carbon Free / where the YouTuber host talks about this Iron-Air battery in the context of grid energy storage of renewables & compares it to the popular but non-earth abundant lithium battery technology widely used in electronics & electric vehicles of all kinds today! Please enjoy the video by clicking the hyperlinked title above & Just Have a Think!
Energy Storage Key Developmental Goals
Storing energy as chemical or mechanical potential in batteries, mass, heat, pressure, kinetic energy in flywheels & ideas adapted from hybrid vehicles & electric vehicles & drones & emerging electric motor generators that can spin with input electrical current energy or produce energy when spun functioning as a generator of electric current.
Emerging Energy Storage Tech
There are many ways emerging to store grid power because most electricity produced consumed within just microseconds of when it was manufactured, traveling at near the speed of light in metal wire conductors that are strung together into a systems of power plants & substations & local distribution transformers & switching yards with capacitor smoothing & energy storage & more customers with rooftop solar PV & micro wind & micro hydro & other forms of distributed generation.
Harnessing Electricity from Waste Heat at Home!
One of the coolest similar to a mini-split heat pump, it uses temperature differences between hot systems in your home, like waste heat from your clothing dryer & fridge or furnace or water heater to make electricity from heat that would otherwise just be lost to the environment outside. "
Electricity Amazing
Electrical energy the most flexible form of energy & makes information technology, lighting, motors, pumps & fans of all kinds possible, enabling appliances & tools & equipment to function & underpinning the foundation of all telecommunications & internet switching packet systems & cloud computer & super computers & desktops & cell phones & phone RF transceiver towers & wifi & blue tooth & Qi chargers wireless charging, electromagnetic induction motors & transformers & switching power supplies & variable DC power supplies & electroplating & lasers & 3D printing & more
Electricity Important
Advance society cannot function without stable grid power thats affordable to consumers! Think about how society would fall apart if the lights turned off for a year, if the power was out worldwide for years. What would the world look like then ? Not just national security, grid power essential to all aspects of modern life, the economy, education, healthcare, government & more to function!
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