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Topic: electricity-grid

A molten-salt solar power tower surrounded by mirrors
Science
Monday, 7/20, 07:33 AM

The Storage Problem Lithium Cannot Solve

  • Lithium-ion batteries are good at moving electricity a few hours through the day.
  • A grid running mostly on wind and sun needs to move it across days of bad weather, and that is a different engineering problem, which is why molten salt, rusting iron and tanks of vanadium are all being tried.

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