This article discusses the feasibility of using a novel sodium-sulfur battery technology for energy storage applications, specifically for renewable energy storage.
Li-Ion batteries may power all the portable devices on Earth, not to mention the electric vehicles, houses, and energy storage facilities. Nevertheless, .
Investigators are hopeful that a new, inexpensive battery that can store four times as much energy and is produced at a far lower cost than lithium-ion batteries will drastically lower the cost of moving to a decarbonized economy.
A Chinese-Australian research group has created a new sodium-sulfur battery that purportedly provides four times the energy capacity of lithium-ion batteries. They say it is far cheaper to produce and offers the potential to dramatically reduce energy storage costs.