New battery could change world, one house at a time
I’d love to be off-the-grid as far as power is concerned. And hmmm, maybe the rest of Gabriola would as well, if it were easy and cheap enough. Here’s an article from the (Utah) Herald Extra that will be of interest to anybody who dreams of these things: New battery could change world, one house at a time.
In a modest building on the west side of Salt Lake City, a team of specialists in advanced materials and electrochemistry has produced what could be the single most important breakthrough for clean, alternative energy since Socrates first noted solar heating 2,400 years ago.
The prize is the culmination of 10 years of research and testing — a new generation of deep-storage battery that’s small enough, and safe enough, to sit in your basement and power your home. (…)
These batteries switch the whole dialogue to renewables,said Daniel Nocera, a noted chemist and professor of energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who sits on Ceramatec’s science advisory board.They will turn us away from dumb technology, circa 1900 — a 110-year-old approach — and turn us forward. (…) I can’t imagine anything more secure than generating my own energy with the sun at my house, and now I’ll have a way to store it. It’s the ultimate in security, and the ultimate in control.[continue]
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