New Zinc Batteries Take On Dunkelflauten & Dendrites, Too
Zinc batteries are beginning to crowd lithium-ion out of the energy storage picture, with green hydrogen also in play.
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NantEnergy Says Zinc-Air Battery Ideal For Grid Storage
NantEnergy brought its simple and inexpensive zinc-air batteries to the One Planet Summit in New York City this week. The company says the market for its batteries could be as much as $50 billion a year.
Microsoft Visited By Zinc-Air Battery Startup (Video)
By Alexander Hirner Zinc-air batteries are widely used in devices like hearing aids for their good performance-to-price ratio. The tricky part is of course to make them rechargeable. This is one of two technologies that ZAF Energy Systems has been working on for the last couple of years. [Note that … [continued]
Zinc-air Battery Company Claims Novel Electrolyte Will Do The Trick (CT Exclusive)
Move over, lithium-ion. A start-up company in northwestern Montana reports that it has solved the rechargeable problem that has dogged zinc-air battery development and will soon be in competition with the dominant lithium-ion technology. Ron Brost, CTO and CEO of ZAF Energy Systems, reports his research team has developed a zinc-air prototype that … [continued]
Weird Fuzzy Compound Could Be Next Big Fuel Cell Catalyst
Viewed up close, tungsten sulfide looks like a bunch of sea urchins moshing at a foam party, but this chemical compound could become the next workhorse of the hydrogen fuel cell field. A team of researchers from Rutgers University is on track to develop nanoscale sheets of tungsten sulfide as … [continued]
Eos Energy Storage Launches 1st Pilot Project With Con Edison
Eos Energy Storage this week launched its first pilot project with Con Edison. The pilot project will see Eos’s potentially disruptive energy storage technology used at Con Edison’s New York City facilities. Interestingly, this announcement came out at about the time (maybe the exact time) I was writing a long article … [continued]
Eos Energy Storage — Next Big Thing In Energy Storage?
We’re creating a resource page on some of the most standout energy storage options moving towards commercialization. If even one of these technologies makes it to market with the specs claimed, it could change the energy game. Let’s hope that happens. The first article in this series was about the zinc-iron … [continued]
Zinc-Iron Redox Flow Batteries — The Next Big Thing In Energy Storage? (CleanTechnica Exclusive)
I recently had the opportunity to chat with the CFO and President of Zinc Air Inc., Craig Wilkins, as well as one of the company’s advisors, Greg Hayes. It was a very interesting discussion and it looks like Zinc Air Inc. has what could be a very promising grid storage technology, and … [continued]
Lux Research: Next-Generation Batteries Eye Slice Of $10B Li-ion Market
According to Lux Research, the lithium-ion battery market has reached over $10 billion, due to the fact that they dominate the battery industries of portable devices such as electric vehicles, laptop computers, tablet PCs, cellphones, and almost everything else except cordless phones and car starter batteries. Lux Research says, however, … [continued]
17 ARPA-E Projects Have Pulled In $450 Million In Private Funding
The U.S. Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) this week announced that 17 projects it has helped jump-start have “demonstrated major technical successes and shown significant market engagement” in the past 4 years. Putting a dollar figure on that, the 17 projects “have attracted over $450 million in private sector … [continued]
