batteries the energy game changer

[markdansie]

There are 13 battery start ups listed in this story, should be good for many of the battery researchers here to see what the market is up to.


http://revolution-green.com/2013/09/12/batteries-energy-game-changer/


Kind Regards

[ramset]

Mark
This link keeps looping into an "error report" everytime I try to View it here in the northeast USA
The Link starts to manifest and then an "error" report removes the page?

I noticed this happened with another Link of yours on the Keppe / Brad challenge ?

Are any of these Batteries working along the lines of the Thorium Type?

thx
Chet

[markdansie]

No thorium ones there
will check out the link problem
mark

[Farmhand]

The Nickel-Iron batteries would seem to last a lifetime, if the life of a Nickel-Iron battery was tripled we would be passing them down three generations.
Leaving them to people in our Will and Testaments. But they are high Mass batteries, I realize that and certainly no good for anything that moves.
But for off grid or especially hybrid grid tie - battery bank solar setups.

Molten salt is already used for energy storage but thermal energy, is that classed as a battery ? Is it true that a Battery can be a series of energy storage cells or potential energy storage cells other than electro-chemical type things ? I mean if the potential is stored in the electric field then it's a capacitor a series of capacitors joined in a permanent group is a "battery" of capacitors.

We need to clear up the terms to their true meaning so people don't confuse each other.

So does any battery of cells of any kind of energy storage count as a battery. I think the future is in "mega capacitors" so as not to leave behind the toxic remains of these toxic metal batteries for ever.

I envision a mega capacitor which is built kinda like a poly-aluminium multi sheet capacitor but made from advanced low toxicity materials and formed into a "battery" of capacitors depending on the intended use.

I'm not keen on any battery which does not lower the toxicity of the materials used.

The aluminium Magnesium battery seems like a good Idea but how stable is the magnesium ? Could it be dangerous, or if a container ship full of cars with the batteries sank would it pollute the ocean, these are the things that concern me. Toxic materials being built into everything.

Cheers

[markdansie]

@farmhand
Your are right about the terminology, their spin doctors get things mixed up.
The Capacitor (I gave up on EEstor) I liek the most and think has the most potential is this one
http://revolution-green.com/2013/08/02/graphene-based-super-capacitor-breakthrough/


Kind Regards