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Monday, April 23, 2012

Liquid Metal Battery

Making Liquid Metal Batteries

Technology Review -
An early mock-up shows stacks of battery cells. A thick layer of foam insulation surrounds the heart of the battery. The colored pieces of material in the center represent the molten battery materials. Liquid Metal Battery Corporation is developing ...
 

Giant liquid metal batteries could make renewable energy sources more viable

The Verge -
By Andrew Webster on April 23, 2012 11:07 am 10Comments Professor Donald Sadoway and his team of students at MIT have managed to build a liquid metal battery that could one day make renewable energy sources like solar and wind a more reliable part of ...
 

Taking an innovative approach to battery design

PressZoom (press release) - 
You have to give Donald Sadoway points for style: Not many professors come to the last class of a semester dressed in black tie, decorate the table with linen and a vase of fresh roses, and toast their students with champagne. 
 

Startup Aims to Bring the Liquid Battery to Market

Technology Review -
A Cambridge company is developing cheap batteries that can store power from wind turbines and solar panels. By Kevin Bullis The workspace at Liquid Metal Battery's small basement headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, looks more like a machine shop ...
 
 
 
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