Form Energy will receive $147 million to build a facility in Maine capable of storing enough energy to provide 85 megawatts of power for up to 100 hours.
Huh… A rust battery? That wouldn’t have been what I expected a long lasting battery chemistry to look like. You probably have to avoid using iron in any other part of the battery structure/electronics, I imagine the corrosion risk would be quite high.
I wonder how their reliability compares to saltwater batteries or lead acid. Also, flow batteries seem like a holy grail for large scale storage, I’m curious how they compare to iron air.
Huh… A rust battery? That wouldn’t have been what I expected a long lasting battery chemistry to look like. You probably have to avoid using iron in any other part of the battery structure/electronics, I imagine the corrosion risk would be quite high.
I wonder how their reliability compares to saltwater batteries or lead acid. Also, flow batteries seem like a holy grail for large scale storage, I’m curious how they compare to iron air.
This isnt even the only iron battery chemistry! The one in the article is Iron-air but you can also do Iron-Iron