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Can you buy a sample battery?

The announcement is suspicious. "100 hours" is not a meaningful number for a battery. The numbers you want to hear are KWH/Kg, KWH/m^3, max charge and discharge rates, number of charge/discharge cycles before storage drops off, efficiency, and cost/KWH.

"That project, announced in May last year, was originally due to be a 1MW/150MWh demonstration plant capable of outputting 1MW for 150 hours straight" hints that the discharge rate may be very low.

Previous work [2] indicates serious limits on charge/discharge cycles. Like 20-30 cycles.

[2] https://phys.org/news/2017-11-renaissance-iron-air-battery.h...

parent Animats 5 years ago

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