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Renewable energy with Liquid Metal Batteries

Liquid Metal Batteries Would Make Renewable Energy Viable Engineering.com Tom Spendlove  on July 26, 2013 Electricity demand has to be in constant balance with electricity supplied – this is the large scale problem Donald Sadoway wants to solve in this TED Talk. The constraints of this problem are immense. A solution would need to generate incredibly high power, have a long service life and come at a very low cost.

Energy storage is the solution. Giant batteries could address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid like a coal burning power plant.

Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy 


Sadoway knows that battery science is straightforward and that the first battery was simple. Alessandro Volta’s invention in the early 1800s only required two electrodes, metals of different compositions, and an electrolyte. ….

Through research at MIT, the battery designs evolved from a shot glass-sized cell storing 1 Watt-hour to a saucer-sized cell storing 200 Watt-hours. Sadoway started his own company to produce larger batteries that will stack to fill a forty foot shipping container.

These large scale batteries would contain 2 MegaWatt-hours, enough energy to meet the daily needs of two hundred American homes.

…http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/6066/Liquid-Metal-Batteries-Would-Make-Renewable-Energy-Viable.aspx

July 27, 2013 - Posted by | energy storage, Resources -audiovicual

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