Renewable Energy Breakthrough - Large scale Storage

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(08-05-2023, 06:24 PM)Stewy Wrote: MIT Engineers Develop Groundbreaking Concrete Supercapacitor

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/MIT-Engineers-Develop-Groundbreaking-Concrete-Supercapacitor.html  <----link to more detailed information is in this article

One of the problem with renewable energy is sustainability.  If a wind farm or solar farm goes down (usually weather related), then sustainability relies on large scale storage or keeping some HC power stations for emergencies.  Large scale storage has been a problem because at best estimates with current technologies it would have taken trillions of dollars to store enough energy to run grids for a number of hours vs. days depending on the emergency.  The MIT breakthrough discussed above is a huge step in the right direction of mass storage of energy for a renewable future.

Happy Reading.

I read about this on Friday.  Great concept if they can iron out a recipe that will allow a good charge with minimal impact on the compressive strength of the concrete itself.  I'm eager for them to do some large scale testing.