America Has Found a Replacement for Lithium - a Battery Made of Rust
Benito Kane
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Iron-air rust batteries promise 100 hours of energy storage for $20/kWh using only iron, air and water. This film explains why lithium-ion lasts just 4 hours and costs 10x too much for week-long outages, how Form Energy's factory in Weirton, West Virginia makes washing-machine-sized rust batteries, and how tests in Cambridge, Minnesota, Georgia, Maine and Ireland will decide if rust can replace gas plants.
America Has Found a Replacement for Lithium - a Battery Made of Rust
Benito Kane
82 views
Iron-air rust batteries promise 100 hours of energy storage for $20/kWh using only iron, air and water. This film explains why lithium-ion lasts just 4 hours and costs 10x too much for week-long outages, how Form Energy's factory in Weirton, West Virginia makes washing-machine-sized rust batteries, and how tests in Cambridge, Minnesota, Georgia, Maine and Ireland will decide if rust can replace gas plants.