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Why Vanadium Flow Batteries Are DISRUPTING Lithium & Sodium Batteries

The Electric Viking

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Vanadium flow batteries are emerging as a powerful disruptor in the energy storage space, challenging the dominance of lithium and sodium technologies. In this video, I explain why vanadium may be the key to stable, long-duration grid storage and how it could reshape the future of EVs and renewable energy.

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@CarVerses 1 year ago

Vanadium could be the dark horse that rewrites the battery game.

@frankcoffey 1 year ago

Gas stations have large underground tanks. I wonder if they could be converted to a flow battery system when the station is converted to an EV charging station? The canopy and roof could have solar and the energy stored in the tanks below reducing the draw from the grid. The battery system could also be charged from the grid during off peak demand.

@ChrismTwo 1 year ago

I'm glad that those, rightly, pushing Vanadium Redox technology in the past have been vindicated in their efforts
There's always a right time and a right place for the right 'solution'!

@michaelreid2329 5 months ago (edited)

I worked at Unisearch in the late 80's and worked to promote Maria's batteries. Wow it is exciting to see success in her lithium Redox batteries take off.
So much has changed with EV technology now it seems to me that a smaller Redox battery could be installed at every large capacity EV charging station to take some load off the grid.

@johncbest859 8 months ago (edited)

Great presentation. As an Electrical Engineer, it was easy to understand. My 17 year old granddaughter understood it as well once I explained the process of how the vanadium ions "exchange" amongst themselves.

Vanadium for long term storage (and safety) appears to be ideal. As long as one can sell the initial high costs. Initially, only well-established companies with high capital will be able to use this technology. Hopefully, it will become less expensive over time.

@plightbody 1 year ago

Since I heard about this technology many years ago, I have concluded that redox flow batteries would be ideal for agricultural regions where; if large pieces of machinery were electrified, harvesters and tractors, the flow batteries could build up a store of energy that could be used in seasonal peak times such as the preparation and sowing of crops and harvest time.
Seasonally fluctuating businesses such as in the snow fields and other tourism areas could also benefit from these types of batteries ❤

@cormorant4161 1 year ago

At last! It has always seemed odd to me that Li ion, whose main benefit is high energy density and therefore usefulness in applications like mobile phones and vehicles, should be the go-to solution for grid-scale storage, where this advantage matters not one jot. Vanadium flow cells are obviously better because of their essentially infinite life. Swapping out a pump every few years is no trouble at all, and we don't have to worry about having to recycle the vanadium. We do, however, have to make sure these batteries are sited in watertight bunds, as the one thing we need to avoid is contaminating the ground water.

@andreasnewitsch59 1 year ago

Very good news. Glad to see they are building these!

@pixelpusher220 1 year ago

Both, use both. Flow batteries are phenomenal at mass storage per $, but not fast at discharge. Stick a bank of LI batteries in front of a Flow battery to handle the fast moving demand and keep charging them up with the flow

@PeterHayward-g7i 1 year ago

Hello, Vanadium flow batteries are great for medium or long-term storage; however you need short-term fast-acting storage like Lithium and/or sodium to balance grid systems when rapid spikes occur, this can happen when you sudden changes in weather or sudden demands from large industries, including AI dater centres, etc.

@AussieBobL 1 year ago (edited)

One of my family member lives on the 42000 acre canola farm up near Mullewa in WA. A few years back they leased ~250 unproductive acres to Vanadium Flow Australia to set up a Vanadium extraction plant. Getting the plant set up has been slowed by regulatory processes but mostly by the low price of Vanadium controlled by China who don't want V to upset their Li battery production. However my relative told me it's now proceeding. They must be serious about it because they are in the process of connecting to the gas pipe line from the Geraldton to Kalgoorlie about 10km away. There's plenty of V in WA it just has to be worth extracting which the Chinese are keep tight reins on. The Plan is to
a) Bring V rich Iron Ore from Mt Magnet (242 km away) initially by truck and then eventually by rail - the railway from Myt Magnet to Geraldton runs right thru the site.
b) take Gas from the Northwest shelf pipeline that runs to Kalgoorlie just 10km north of the site - in progress.
c) Use unportable underground water but good enough for V processing to process
d) Truck the processed ore to the port of Geraldton some 75km away,
e) start processing and once sufficient V has been produce set up a large V flow battery and solar farm on site and run the plant using that
f) Eventually if the price of V goes high enough to reprocess used re-bar which contains high amounts of V
A bit more information here https://www.australianvanadium.com.au - so Mr Viking how about doing a story on this!

@BGittins1 1 year ago

I invested $10K in Redflow batteries which went bust☺️ As an electrical engineer I knew they had great potential, but I knew little about commercialisation but feel somewhat justified in my assessment of these batteries and their hugh potential

@stevebrugman3145 1 year ago

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@sreville 1 year ago

Thanks for the backstory, Sam. Always enjoy these types of videos ☺️

@tomrichardson651 1 year ago

It is exciting to see so much innovation in battery design. I expect we will see a few of these making it to the mainstream market.

@peiguy1982 1 year ago

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@wonderwalls3565 1 year ago

This guy comes with new batteries every week.

@carusmike 1 year ago

Combine with modern nuclear, superb

@keithwilson1554 1 year ago

I spoke to the Uni of NSW Inventors in the late 1980s and they were looking to China to help fund their Batteries. They did receive some seed money from John Howard. During the 1990s I saw Japan, Canada , USA, Germany and others start using Vanadium Batteries as Baseload on small scale, UPS for Hospitals and the company in Germany even had an EV station for 3 or 4 Cars with a small Wind turbine and Solar to supplement the Battery. But relentless propaganda by the Fossil Fuel Lobby known as Main Stream Media kept up the Myth there was NO Solution to Baseload. Besides starting Wars to slow down renewable Energy they are now using the entirely Useless Crypto Money Mining to disrupt Energy Grids and slow down renewables.