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Re:Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation by baking on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:27PM (#23119680)
Here is a lecture on the technology by MIT Professor Yet-Ming Chiang from the MIT Club of Northern California last October.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E76q-9q7ZDg

(Edit: After rewatching, a little short on the actual tech, but tons of info on the chemistry, materials science, markets, and economics of battery storage in all of its forms. Here is the original paper https://www.cell.com/joule/pdf/S2542-4351(17)30032-6.pdf)

MIT Professor Donald Sadoway also invented a liquid metal battery and founded a company called Ambri. Talks by him are easier to find.

Both have interesting tech, flexible chemistry, and good price models that beat wildly optimistic lithium ion battery price forecasts.

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