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Form Energy sprang out of JCESR research on the air-breathing sulfur battery. (Credit: Image courtesy of JCESR.)
A new era of energy provided by renewables may be close at hand, thanks to research begun at the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Innovation Hub led by DOE s Argonne National Laboratory, and continued at spinoff company Form Energy.
The challenge JCESR addressed is long duration storage stabilizing a renewable grid against several consecutive days of calm or overcast days when wind and solar generation is absent or severely limited. Today s lithium-ion batteries can discharge at full power for 4-6 hours, enough to stabilize against most intra-day variations due to passing clouds or fluctuating winds, or to extend solar electricity a few hours past sunset to serve the evening demand peak. A full day or consecutive days of windless or overcast weather is stabilized by natural gas p
Reshaping the future of the electric grid through low-cost, long-duration discharge batteries
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Form Energy sprang out of JCESR research on the air-breathing sulfur battery.
A new era of energy provided by renewables may be close at hand, thanks to research begun at the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Innovation Hub led by DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, and continued at spinoff company Form Energy.
The challenge JCESR addressed is long duration storage stabilizing a renewable grid against several consecutive days of calm or overcast days when wind and solar generation is absent or severely limited. Today’s lithium-ion batteries can discharge at full power for 4-6 hours, enough to stabilize against most intra-day variations due to passing clouds or fluctuating winds, or to extend solar electricity a few hours past sunset to serve the evening demand peak. A full day or consecutive days of w
Murugesan s research destined for Energy Sciences Center adds to PNNL s battery technology contributions
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Vijayakumar Vijay Murugesan stands next to the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy imaging system, which is attached to a glovebox via an in situ sample transfer port. The instrument helps Murugesan and other researchers design battery parts then conduct tests in the imaging system. The setup will move to the new Energy Sciences Center later this year. (Photo by Andrea Starr | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
When he was a 10th grade student at a public school in southern India, Vijayakumar Vijay Murugesan submitted a science project that lacked peer review, among other things.
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Darkwah known in showbiz circles as KKD said as the youngest Ghanaian radio presenter at the time (aged 19), he wanted the Ghanaian youth to feel pride in the African name.
KKD told Blakk Rasta last Friday in an interview on Zylophone FM that, at the time all the presenters at the state-owned Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) had English first names.
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