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The Liquid Metal Battery Missing Link to Renewable Energy

What’s the key to using alternative energy, like solar and wind? Storage — so we can have power on tap even when the sun’s not out and the wind’s not blowing. This video presentation by inventor Donald Sadoway takes to the blackboard to show us the future of large-scale batteries that store renewable energy. As he says: “We need to think about the problem ...

Dec. 19, 2013

By GLOBE SERIES

Mercedes-Benz offers hybrid with lithium-ion battery at a US$12k premium

Mercedes-Benz is now taking orders in Germany for its S 400 Hybrid, the first production hybrid vehicle in the world to feature a lithium-ion battery pack, and the company is charging a premium of more than $12,000 for the hybrid system. Mercedes-Benz based its hybrid on the S 350 luxury sedan, which sells for 76,160 Euros, or about $100,932. The basic price for the S 400 Hybrid is 85,323 Euros, ...

Apr. 15, 2009

By U.S. Department of Energy - Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Closing the Innovation Gap in Grid-Scale Energy Storage

Grid-scale energy storage has the potential to make the transition to a low-carbon energy system easier, quicker, and cheaper than it would be otherwise. Progress has been made to bring a wide array of storage technologies to the market, thanks in part to federal and state policies. However, these options are still not cheap enough or powerful enough to provide all the storage services required ...

Apr. 26, 2018

By Ambri Incorporated

NEC to Develop Energy Storage Systems with Cells from Ambri, Inc.

NEC Energy Solutions (NEC) and Ambri today announced they have signed a joint development agreement (JDA) in which NEC will design and develop an energy storage system based on Ambri’s Liquid Metal Battery technology. NEC will employ its proprietary AEROS® energy storage operating system and controls to optimize system performance of the Ambri-based energy storage systems for NEC ...

Sep. 23, 2019

By Ambri Incorporated

Bold, transformational energy research projects win US$151m in funding

The Department of Energy today announced major funding for 37 ambitious research projects – including some that could allow intermittent energy sources like wind and solar to provide a steady flow of power, or use bacteria to produce automotive fuel from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. The $151 million in funding is being awarded through the Department’s recently-formed Advanced Research ...

Oct. 27, 2009

By US Department of Energy

New formulation leads to improved liquid battery

Original story at MIT News Researchers at MIT have improved a proposed liquid battery system that could enable renewable energy sources to compete with conventional power plants. Donald Sadoway and colleagues have already started a company to produce electrical-grid-scale liquid batteries, whose layers of molten material automatically separate due to their differing densities. But the new ...

Sep. 21, 2014

By MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology