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New battery -recharge it by changing the elctrolyte.

Started by wrtner · · 2 posts · last reply 27 April 2017

  1. wrtner

    #1 ·

    Electrolyte Flow Battery or Flow cell battery.

    A flow battery is a rechargeable fuel cell in which an electrolyte containing one or more dissolved electroactive elements flows through an electrochemical cell that reversibly converts chemical energy directly to electricity (electroactive elements are "elements in solution that can take part in an electrode reaction ...

    i.e. to recharge the battery, you drain the liquid and fill with another.



    Flow Batteries | Energy Storage Association

    New type of ?flow battery? can store 10 times the energy of the next best device | Science | AAAS

    vanadium-flow-battery-wind-energy.jpg
    The startup UTE is promoting its latest vanadium flow battery project in Washington State with a not so subtle dig at the lithium-ion Tesla battery.




    The question is: Can we get it together to build one for ourselves?
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  2. ET-Power

    #2 ·

    Thank you for the post and links!

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