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Lithium competitor poised for growth

New battery chemistries: A new battery technology, the so-called saltwater battery made by Aquion energy, is poised to take the market for stationary storage systems by storm. Sales are already impressive, and demand continues to rise. Nevertheless, pushing lithium-ion batteries out of the market with this technology will be no easy task.

By

Mirco Sieg

19 Sep 2016

Before Jay Whitacre invented the saltwater battery, he tinkered with the battery system for the NASA Mars rover, among other things. But the current professor of materials science in the U.S. city of Pittsburgh had his own vision of what made a good battery system. It not only had to use readily available and harmless …

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