Batts

You need to check out this 1,780-word article from the Financial Times — Power Supply: Batteries required.

Here’s a slice:

. . . the 62-year-old Prof Sadoway has become something of a messiah of modern energy. In February, he got a standing ovation for a 15-minute talk on the battery at this year’s TED ideas conference in California that has just clocked more than 1m views online.

In April, Time magazine named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people and last month he appeared on the late night US satirical television news show, The Colbert Report, an experience he describes as “different”.

The liquid metal battery is not due to be ready for commercial testing until the first part of 2014. But it is easy to see why people are so interested in this and the other potentially transformative energy storage technologies that have steadily started to make their way from laboratory to factory floor.

The article centers on the importance of better batteries in the evolution of renewable power generation — something in which the EleBlog is certain. No battery improvements will mean solar + wind will, eventually, be abandoned.

Source: http://electricalcontractor.com/?p=7207

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