Comments on: Can Utility-Scale Batteries Rescue Intermittent Renewables? (Improvement, market shakeout, but no ‘silver bullet’)

By: A.K.M.Mozammel Hoque

A.K.M.Mozammel Hoque — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:06:50 +0000

Dear Sir,
We are interested to know who will be the authorized dealers throughout the world to market STAIR batteries. Who will be the authorised dealer/agent for Bangladesh ?
What will be price ranges according to power?
We think it is the last blessing to the mankind.
Awaiting your kindest reply asap.
Thanking you all.

By: Tom Stacy

Tom Stacy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:21:21 +0000

I got as far as “MW/year” and then I stopped and pondered. Then I concluded to stop reading. Units of power per time period kind of ground me to a halt. I could have hung with MW years, but not MW per year. I want to know more about batteries someday.

By: Charlie Whitehead

Charlie Whitehead — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:45:22 +0000

Check these links about vanadium flow batteries…

The Vanadium Battery: The Ultimate Energy Storage Solution – http://tiny.cc/UNo8J

Vanadium – The element that could change the world: http://tiny.cc/gdmbO

By: Frank Watson

Frank Watson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:59:33 +0000

Vanadium flow batteries will soon have another positive on their side – a 200 Mt vanadium deposit has just been discovered in Africa that is sediment-hosted This means a cost o produce of less than $2.00/lb. That’s enough vanadium to supply the world batteries for decades. The company that owns this deposit is Energizer Resources (URST.OB) http://www.energizerresources.com Their Green Giant vanadium deposit will offer sureness f supply and cost to future vanadium redox battery manufacturers. Given this and the comprehensive info in your article my money is on vanadium.

By: John Droz

John Droz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:55:38 +0000

Robert:

Thank you for an informative article.

The waxing on about batteries of the future can’t help but remind me of the promises made about nuclear fussion: on paper things seem great. In reality it is an entirely different matter.

And, of course, the cost projections of industry lobbyists and agenda promoters can’t be considered credible.

I also can’t help but think of the analogy of an engineering expert who I heard talk about batteries for such sources as industrial wind power. He said: “another word for a battery for such an application, is bomb.”

By: Jon Boone

Jon Boone — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:46:18 +0000

Although it’s good to see this kind of innovative panoply, one should note that, while the birth announcements of such devices appear abundantly , their consequent obituaries are rarely observed.

One should also abjure the prospect of building expansive “renewables” all the hell over the place” in the hope that, one day, somehow, this storage technology will make them all work properly. Such “build it and the enabling technology will come” exuberance should be anathema to informed practice.