The Liquid Metal Battery: Innovation in stationary electricity storage

Why HN readers recommended it

HN brings it up in energy storage threads as a promising scalable grid storage technology, and calls it worth the hour.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

School of Convergence Science

Topic

grid energy storage

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This talk by Dr Sadoway is pretty amazing regarding his team's design for utility-scale liquid metal batteries: [VIDEO] It's an hour long, but it's well worth the time investment. This is not merely a theoretical technology. A company has been created around this technology: [LINK] …

• I think this guy is onto something... Liquid metal batteries will be better than gravity storage IMHO. [VIDEO] First commercial scale system is going live in 2021 so we shall see how it works out.

• We are probably using the wrong kind of battery for grid storage. There are some promising techs out there, like Liquid Metal Battery: [LINK] [VIDEO]