Obviously they're light on details at the moment, but I'm curious about the capacity and, more importantly, discharge rate of a single one of their 1m x 1m cells. One of the problems long-duration...
Obviously they're light on details at the moment, but I'm curious about the capacity and, more importantly, discharge rate of a single one of their 1m x 1m cells. One of the problems long-duration batteries have faced is the ability to get the electricity back out of them at a usable rate. Making a battery that can store a petawatt-hour of electricity is useless if it can't discharge it fast enough.
If an individual 1m x 1m cell can spit out 220v then I can see these being sold to consumers as well for a distributed energy storage solution for individual homes; wire it to the house and put it outside near the AC unit.
Nice find. That's seems within feasibility range compared to a lithium ion cell at 3.6-3.8v. Per Form Energy each 1m2 battery has 10-20 cells, so we're in the 20-40v range each. An inverter to get...
Nice find. That's seems within feasibility range compared to a lithium ion cell at 3.6-3.8v.
Per Form Energy each 1m2 battery has 10-20 cells, so we're in the 20-40v range each. An inverter to get that to 220v isn't outside the realm of affordability I'd think. Just a question of how much capacity each 1m2 battery has.
Related WSJ article:
Startup Claims Breakthrough in Long-Duration Batteries
Obviously they're light on details at the moment, but I'm curious about the capacity and, more importantly, discharge rate of a single one of their 1m x 1m cells. One of the problems long-duration batteries have faced is the ability to get the electricity back out of them at a usable rate. Making a battery that can store a petawatt-hour of electricity is useless if it can't discharge it fast enough.
If an individual 1m x 1m cell can spit out 220v then I can see these being sold to consumers as well for a distributed energy storage solution for individual homes; wire it to the house and put it outside near the AC unit.
Nice find. That's seems within feasibility range compared to a lithium ion cell at 3.6-3.8v.
Per Form Energy each 1m2 battery has 10-20 cells, so we're in the 20-40v range each. An inverter to get that to 220v isn't outside the realm of affordability I'd think. Just a question of how much capacity each 1m2 battery has.