05-11-2015, 12:00 AM
Engineers at the University of Maryland have created a battery that is made entirely out of one material and claims to be capable of both moving electricity and storing it. “To my knowledge, there has never been any similar work reported,” explained Dr. Kang Xu of the Army Research Laboratory, a researcher only peripherally related to the study. “It could lead to revolutionary progress in area of solid state batteries.”
Single material battery is safer, simpler and more efficient - Electronics Eetimes
Tesla’s home batteries are much cheaper than most predicted. But how they’ll make money is the big question.
How Tesla’s Energy Storage Play Could Take Flight—or Flop : Greentech Media
LightSail Energy, the energy storage startup backed by some of the country’s most prominent venture capitalist tech billionaires, has a plan to slash the costs of building its above-ground compressed air storage systems. But it’s not divulging details of exactly how it’s going to do it.
LightSail’s Secret Plan to Slash the Costs of Compressed Air Energy Storage : Greentech Media
An Irish company is in the process of building one of the largest energy storage facilities ever, and it is doing it with an alternative form of energy storage that has never been tried on this scale before. Schwungrad Energie is building a 20MW flywheel energy storage system which should help to even out the energy usage needs across all of Ireland.
This Development Could Revolutionize Renewable Energy - Yahoo Finance