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Form Energy Battery System Rendering. Courtesy Form Energy Salt and rust — the bane of your car's existence — may be the keys to storing enough renewable energy to power the electric grid for several days. That's according to two local companies that have emerged with innovative battery designs based on cheap, widely-available materials. After four years of stealth R&D, Somerville-based Form Energy has emerged with what could be a breakthrough energy storage technology, based on rust. Form Energy president and CEO Ted Wiley says the company has produced hundreds of working prototypes of a...

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory 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 sola...

Reshaping the future of the electric grid through low-cost, long-duration discharge batteries Credit: Courtesy of JCESR 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 cons...

The top energy stories of 2020 - and what to expect in the year ahead Benji JonesDec 31, 2020, 20:18 IST Robert Alexander/Getty Images Welcome to a special edition of Insider Energy, a weekly energy newsletter brought to you by Business Insider. This week features our best stories of 2020. Here's what you need to know before we dive in: Want to get Insider Energy in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Do you have feedback or story tips? Reach out to me at bjones@businessinsider.com. We'll return to our regular schedule next week. Happy New Year to the exactly five people online this we...

Circling Eloh: A Meditation First the war, thousands of miles to the east. No. First other, older wars with forgotten names, unhousing and unhoming the Apache Nation. The Arapaho Nation. The Cheyenne Nation. The Pueblo. The Shoshone. The Comanche. The Kiowa. The Navajo. There is a river run red, there is a lake, there is a world on fire who can never be regained. How can we reclaim when name and place are lost? When even ponderosa and lodgepole are uprooted for maple and elm? There is water. There are a hundred years. There is not enough water. There are fifty years. There is the town of Stou...