Ambri Liquid Metal Battery Company
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Gigaom - Bill Gates, Khosla Ventures and oil giant Total back a liquid metal battery company called AmbriAmbri is developing a battery for the power grid using molten salt sandwiched between two layers of liquid metal. The battery is still about two years from commercialization, and the team has built a 16-inch prototype, though they might scale that up to 36 inches. The team is still figuring out if they want the battery to be squarish or circular.
The base unit for Ambri’s solution is the liquid metal battery cell. Each cell is a 16-inch square unit containing about 1200 Wh. Cells are placed into refrigerator-sized modules, and the modules are placed in to a 40-ft shipping container rated at 500 kW and 2 MWh storage capacity.
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