Iron Fuel Shows Its Mettle

Re:Iron Fuel Shows Its Mettle by rsaesha on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:40PM (#36449250)

If using Fe why not iron batteries? Keep the redox, remove the energy from the system via eletrical current instead of low efficiency heat, boiler and steam engine combo.

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Re:Iron Fuel Shows Its Mettle by hn_throwaway_99 on Friday June 23, 2023 @01:25PM (#36449799)

Great point. Fe batteries are very new so I'm not aware of the cost/benefit or if Fe batteries still slowly discharge over time, but yeah in both cases you're just oxidizing iron, so why not take the more direct route to generate electrical current directly.

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Re:Iron Fuel Shows Its Mettle by samus on Friday June 23, 2023 @01:59PM (#36450213)

There are also applications where the desired output is heat, not electricity. In that case, iron fuel would be useful.

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