Design may support widespread use of solar and wind energy MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable flow battery that doesn’t rely on expensive membranes to generate and store elec... Read more
Deferring the Need for New Infrastructure for instance . . . Large-scale energy storage technologies are often hailed as a key to enabling increased use of intermittent renewable energy reso... Read more
One involves pumping water uphill, the other one involves compressing air Energy storage is the key to deploying wind and solar energy on a vast scale, but exactly how much of it will... Read more
In the future, the growing amounts of solar and wind energy will need to be stored for dark or low-wind periods. One solution is redox flow batteries that can supply current for up to 2000 h... Read more
Though considered a promising large-scale energy storage device, the vanadium redox battery’s use has been limited by its inability to work well in a wide range of temperatures and its... Read more