Batteries That Go With the Flow

A new battery design promises to even out fluctuations in solar and wind power

If we’re ever to run our electric grid on the on-again, off-again power that wind and sun provide, we’re going to need better batteries.

About half a dozen types of batteries are now grid-ready, but a 30-year-old technology known as a flow battery could be the best bargain.

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