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HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

China develops iron battery 80 times cheaper than lithium that can last 16 years. It provides a budget-friendly, high-endurance answer for the world’s massive energy storage needs.

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China develops iron battery 80 times cheaper than lithium that can last 16 years. It provides a budget-friendly, high-endurance answer for the world’s massive energy storage needs.

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HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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China's new iron battery hits 99.4 percent efficiency over 6000 cycles
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A research team at the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has advanced "all-iron" flow battery technology.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46526992

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2095495622003485

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    tldr, how is this breakthrough different than than the other battery breakthroughs? I read some new battery that solves “the world’s massive energy storage needs.” about once or twice a year and so for not a single one had a noteworthy followup a year later.

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      This tech needs years to reach practical terms.

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        This tech needs years to reach practical terms.

        here are some older examples:

        2007: https://www.technologyreview.com/2007/01/22/226911/battery-breakthrough/

        2009: https://research.ibm.com/publications/lithium-air-battery-promise-and-challenges

        2012: https://www.technologyreview.com/2012/10/16/183258/a123-systems-files-for-bankruptcy/

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          while researching I found, that apparently we had a potential real recent breakthrough though, which is actually used in a car https://electrek.co/2026/02/05/first-sodium-ion-battery-ev-debuts-game-changer/

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