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Re:Researchers have developed a water-based battery to store... by TTPrograms on Sunday May 06, 2018 @04:28PM (#17008330)
Utility scale batteries optimize for energy/$, not energy density or weight etc.

Your comparisons are totally irrelevant.

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Re:Researchers have developed a water-based battery to store... by vanderZwan on Sunday May 06, 2018 @06:26PM (#17008978)
On that note, does anyone have any idea how it might compare to Peter Allen's open source Iron Battery project? I know the latter is in a very early stage, but maybe there is already a theoretical limit that can be predicted given the properties of manganese and iron.

http://peterallenlab.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-t9a7XVoH9lDJzhUF2nyHQ

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