Comments on: Why the world needs flow batteries http://gigaom.com/2012/02/23/what-you-need-to-know-about-flow-batteries-2/ Sun, 26 May 2013 02:45:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lindsworth Horatio Deer http://gigaom.com/2012/02/23/what-you-need-to-know-about-flow-batteries-2/#comment-813061 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:44:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=488866#comment-813061 similar concept to a Liquid electrolyte battery!!! Highly prized by researchers as they are effectively an Eternal Battery……once charged, they never run down.

http://mythoughtsontechnologyandjamaica.blogspot.com/2011/05/prof-donald-sadoway-and-liquid-metal.html

]]> By: Ucilia Wang http://gigaom.com/2012/02/23/what-you-need-to-know-about-flow-batteries-2/#comment-812696 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:20:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=488866#comment-812696 I think when people are vague about cost it’s because they don’t have good numbers to prove they can do it more cheaply. Or they throw out numbers that will only work if they already have made/sold batteries in large volumes (but they don’t make that clear).

]]> By: michael kanellos http://gigaom.com/2012/02/23/what-you-need-to-know-about-flow-batteries-2/#comment-812628 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:25:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=488866#comment-812628 I just wish they all weren’t so slippery when it came to talking cost per kilowatt or cost per kilowatt/hour (note to crazy people: both terms are used in the battery business so please don’t jump up and down that kw is used here.) The estimates tend to be vague and/or difficult to substantiate. But flows are a great idea.

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