Combining high performance characteristics and safety with lower levelised-cost-of-storage, flow batteries are the perfect choice for long-duration energy storage projects— at least on paper. But with a history dating back almost 140 years, the technology is suffering from a lack of wide-scale deployment seen by other battery technologies. But the tide is beginning to rise for flow batteries, as Paul Crompton reports.
On 9 August, 1884, airship La France completed its maiden journey. The 170-foot-long airship finished its 8km trip in 23 minutes powered by a 435kg zinc-chlorine flow battery.
Since those . . .
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