Old Power Stations Become Fabulous Green Assets, Reveals IDTechEx

Power stations are usually ugly. In addition, coal, oil, and gas power stations are turning out to be expensive write–offs for power companies, particularly facilities that are not very old. The new IDTechEx report, “Stationary Energy Storage Without Batteries: Grid, Microgrid, UPS, Trackside 2021-2041” has the answer – repurposing as energy storage. Raghu Das, CEO […] The post Old Power Stations Become Fabulous Green Assets, Reveals IDTechEx appeared first on Civil + Structural Engineer magazine.

Undecided - Why Salt Water may be the Future of Batteries 09052023

There’s no shortage of solutions to the world’s need for renewable energy storage, but there is a shortage of accessible and cheap resources to use for those solutions. Lithium and vanadium aren't limitless, so what about regular, run-of-the-mill salt? Redox flow batteries, or RFBs, can exploit the abundance of elements like sodium and iron. One U.S. company already has salt water batteries ready to go, with at least two others developing iron flow variations built to effectively run on rust.

Undecided - The Breakthrough Battery That The US Gave Away to China, 11102022

In terms of grid-scale energy storage, redox flow batteries (RFB) are one of the big competitors for lithium-ion batteries. In preliminary tests vanadium redox flow batteries can be manufactured with longer lasting lives, be made more scalable, and are easier to recycle than other battery technologies. Yet, after investing millions of US tax dollars into a cutting edge flow battery formula, the American government basically gave it away to China, who is currently the lead producer of RFB