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ambicaptertoday at 1:33 PM3 repliesview on HN

Glad I finally have a name (flow battery) for a concept that I've been wanting to be made for a long time (liquid batteries).


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somattoday at 2:49 PM

Flow batteries specifically are liquid, or more accurately fluid, there can be gas flow batteries, where the chemical sub-products are pumped in and out of the cells.

They tend to be large utility scale things that look like a chemical plant, correction, are a chemical plant with electrical storage as the product.

Liquid electrolyte batteries have been a thing from when batteries have been invented. But not much work has been done to really scale it up.

tveitatoday at 2:27 PM

You might find the home made batteries of this guy interesting as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq7fR9ISuCw

sfn42today at 2:28 PM

It's not a new idea, they already exist.

A huge redox-flow battery is currently under construction in Switzerland https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-solutions/switzerland-b...

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