Featured in Burning ambition – 09-2012

The next big thing: Vanadium

Raw materials: One of the world’s newest “super powers” is not on the map yet, has not been recognized by the United Nations, and will not make an appearance at Comic-Con International. Its name is vanadium (chemical symbol: V), and it is a grayish-white, ductile and tensile metal that has unexpectedly become one of the most precious commodities on the planet.
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Until recently, this metal was overlooked and underpriced. Today, vanadium is vitally needed – by both the renewable energy and the steel/construction sectors. Indeed, vanadium-flow batteries (VFBs), also called vanadium redox flow batteries, are being heralded as an answer to the “missing link” in clean energy production – lack of volume storage for the electricity …

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