Cement Batteries Could Let Your Whole House Store Electricity
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This Rechargeable Cement Battery Could Power the World
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Cement battery could turn buildings and bridges into gigantic energy-storage devices
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Rechargeable cement-based battery could let buildings store energy
The prototype of rechargeable cement-based battery. Credit: Chalmers University of Technology
Imagine entire ten- or twenty-story buildings that can store energy as in a giant battery. This vision may well become a reality as researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in something unique – a world-first concept for a rechargeable cement-based battery.
The ambition of the researchers is that at some point in the future, this technology will allow the conversion of entire buildings into large energy storage areas, that is, to function as huge batteries. Although extremely ambitious, the effort may have some chances of success as cement is the most common building material around the world.