Zinc metal is always found in association with lead, the most commonly used battery material. In this article Gregory Zhang argues the case for using zinc as the core of large scale electrical energy storage.
Solar and wind energy, as the major forms of renewable energy, are now widely adopted around the world. However, much of the installed capacity of solar and wind energy cannot be reliably connected to the electric grid due to the intermittency of solar and wind power [1,2]. Energy storage is viewed as an effective way to deal with this problem.
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