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Course Preview: Next-Generation Energy Storage
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Stanford professor Yi Cui breaks down one of the leading candidates for grid storage: redox-flow batteries. Holding energy in liquids rather than solid cells could change how storage scales.
Uploaded 07-10-26
What you'll learn:
• Why capacity is set by tank size rather than cell size
• How flow batteries let energy and power scale independently
• The three obstacles left: how much the liquids can carry, whether the molecules survive repeated cycling, and the cost of the membrane
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