by Susan Keown | Aug 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
For the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Karyn Hede (@KarynHede) writes about the lab’s new flow battery, which maintained its ability to store and release energy for more than a year of continuous charge and discharge — a record.Designed for energy storage on...
by Susan Keown | Jan 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Vince Beiser (@VinceBeiser) writes for the Sierra Club about the impact of lithium mining on environments worldwide, through the lens of the Atacama Desert of Chile, which is home to one of the world’s biggest lithium operations. The world must vastly increase its...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
John Roach visits Glacier, Washington for the crisp mountain air and the big batteries. In a National Geographic piece, John writes that Glacier is just one of many national testing grounds for giant battery systems that could make electrical systems more reliable and...