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Breaking the Barriers for Low-Cost Energy Storage: Battery Could Help Transition to Renewable Energy

Science Daily -- A team of researchers has developed a cheap, rechargeable and eco-friendly battery that could be used to store energy at solar power plants for a rainy day.

Led by Sri Narayan, professor of chemistry at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the team developed an air-breathing battery that uses the chemical energy generated by the oxidation of iron plates that are exposed to the oxygen in the air -- a process similar to rusting.

"Iron is cheap and air is free," Narayan said. "It's the future." Details about the battery will be published July 20 in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society.

As currently developed, Narayan's batteries have the capacity to store between eight and 24 hours' worth of energy. His patent is pending, and both the federal government and Calif

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we will see
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how many batteries will we need? Are they renewable, re-cycleable? Or will they add to the junk pile that the world creates.
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How does this help bring down gas prices?
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hmm...
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Just like nickel-zinc, there are other batteries out there besides nickel-metal-hydride or lithium-ion.
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Seems like engineers keep coming up with great ideas but where are they
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Fascinating.
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Cool!
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This would be good to see.
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Go for it!!!!
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The process is probably as efficient creating energy as it is time-efficient for me to watch my car rust.
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Let us hope this works.
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Hope similar discoveries will make electric cars more affordable.
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GOOD LUCK!
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Excellent! Keep the green energy market development flowing!
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great if it is economical.
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I hope it works out.
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When a product cost more to make and to maintane. That's called a net lost of energy..: -(
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I'm sure these batteries are huge relative to the amount of energy stored.
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It is theoretical. Is it practical?
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Lets hope it works or someone else takes the idea and perfects it
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Thanks!
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worth a look, hope it's not another solindra money pit
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Different approach.
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Lets see it work first.
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Sounds like it would require a lot of space -
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Wasn't this in the news last week? Still pie in the sky. Let them experiment all the want as long as it is not with taxpayer's money.
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I guess it is a start.
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It's a start
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“Still have a long ways to go.”

Indeed, but all new developments start in the laboratory, then move to feasibility testing, then pilot plants, and finally actual commercial development. A few things that get that far then achieve economies of scale and mass production. Time will tell.
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When they master it, we might buy it. Not before then, Mr Obama.
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keep working on it
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Still have a long ways to go.
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Interesting...
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Iron and Oxygen? Rust as battery storage technology? I love it when people think outside the box and try really new things...
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More battery, the better.
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Good anything to rid ourselves of big oil and there gouging.
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The problem with energy is that generation is cheap, but storage is expensive. Storage always leads to doubing, tripling, or quadrupling the cost.
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