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China develops iron battery 80 times cheaper than lithium that can last 16 years. It provides a budget-friendly, high-endurance answer for the world’s massive energy storage needs. (interestingengineering.com)
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[–] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ehh I follow the battery news well enough to know it's different this time.

The way you can tell is that it isn't coming from the MIT press release department.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, it's a good time for batteries and solar panels.

    I think we're just going to let out current infrastructure rot out from under us and while house generators run on gas.

    I mean, we could modernize our infrastructure, but we can barely keep bridges standing and I'm not sure if utilities are communism or not. I suspect that they are.

    The lithium iron phosphate is already pretty impressive, just a bit pricey.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Anything "flow" is going to be game changing to an extent I think let readers really barely understand. It turns energy storage into something as boring and understood as the refrigeration cycle. Flow means storage at scale becomes trivial.

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