Re:Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts
by szvsw on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @01:13AM
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Antora is one example: https://antoraenergy.com/
In addition to a few hundred mil in funding, they have support from NREL/DoE, eg https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2024/how-nrel-helps-start... I also was at a conference recently that had some cool feasibility studies done by people at NREL about using TPV for LDTES with Antora product specs used for boundary conditions, but I don’t think that’s published yet.
I’ve also seen FourthPower mentioned a few times but I don’t know much about them or how feasible their tech actually is.
https://gofourth.com/our-technology/
Energy storage is not my area of expertise (but very much adjacent to it).
I'm also curious how it compares in cost effectiveness to this battery that's based on sand.
https://tambaynews.blogspot.com/2022/07/worlds-first-commerc...