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August 20, 2013

New rechargeable flow battery enables cheaper, large-scale energy storage
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MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable flow battery that doesn't rely on expensive membranes to generate and store electricity. The device, they say, may one day enable cheaper, large-scale energy storage. The palm-sized prototype generates three times as much power per square centimeter as other membraneless systems - a power density that is an order of magnitude higher than that of many lithium-ion batteries and other commercial and experimental energy-storage systems. The devi ... read more

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