Stanford Scientists Breathe New Life Into Old Edison Battery

July 5th, 2012 by Zachary Shahan

Via sister site Green Building Elements, here’s some recent news on an old battery technology and its potential use in electric vehicles or for storing electricity produced from wind turbines and solar panels. What do you battery experts think of this one?

Stanford Scientists Spark New Interest in the Old Edison Battery (via http://greenbuildingelements.com)

Stanford University scientists have breathed new life into the nickel-iron battery, a rechargeable technology developed by Thomas Edison more than a century ago. Designed in the early 1900s to power electric vehicles, the Edison battery largely went out of favor in the mid-1970s. Today only a handful…

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