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Breaking Through With a Better Battery for Storing Renewable Energy - Technology Org
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Breaking Through With a Better Battery for Storing Renewable Energy - Technology Org
Renewable power sources like wind and solar need large-scale battery arrays to store the generated energy and supply the electric grid when there is no sun or wind. Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a solution for a better battery—one that’s efficient, safe, sustainable, and economical for both utilities and consumers.
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Production of today’s most widely used battery technology — using lithium-ion as the critical metal component — relies on shrinking supplies of two other metals, cobalt and nickel, without which the batteries would not function. Those rare metals, however, are toxic and can contaminate ecosystems and water sources if they leach out of landfills.
Zinc metal batteries are an energy-dense alternative to lithium-ion, made from a safe and abundant metal. Previously, these batteries have been limited, because of their poor recharging efficiency and a chemical reaction producing unwanted hydrogen, which greatly reduced their cycle life. But scientists led by Oregon State researcher Xiulei “David” Ji have resolved those limitations with one big breakthrough.
Ji and collaborators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Penn State University and the University of California, Riverside have developed a new electrolyte for zinc batteries that raises their charging efficiency to 99.95%, competitive or even better than lithium-ion.
The new hybrid electrolyte uses water and a dissolved mixture of inexpensive chloride salts, eliminating the undesirable hydrogen reaction and extending the battery’s cycle life. Ji says the cost of electricity delivered by a storage facility using zinc batteries needs to support thousands of charge and discharge cycles to compete with fossil fuel electricity. Rigorous testing indicates these batteries will.
“Zinc metal batteries are one of the leading candidate technologies for large-scale energy storage,” Ji says. “Our new hybrid electrolyte is nonflammable, cost effective and has a very low environmental impact.”
In addition to utility-scale solar and wind farm installations, zinc batteries offer a secure and efficient way for homeowners to store electricity generated by rooftop solar panels. They can also serve as energy storage modules for communities that are vulnerable to natural disasters.
It’s a powerful solution toward a clean energy future.
Source: Oregon State University
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I feel like there’s a very obvious solution to the immortal snail problem that you’re all missing.
#That damn snail may be immortal but it sure as hell isn’t unsaltable.#It won’t die but it’ll be completely dehydrated and sad and fucking miserable if you will. That’s good enough for me.#Watch me have one of my goons trap it in a labyrinth of pure sodium chloride.#Or perhaps trap it in a salt circle or even just a giant brick of pure salt with a tiny little snail hole in it. Like one of those lamps.#Get salted you slimy immortal bitch.#immortal snail#immortal snail problem#Meme#tumblr memes#funny#humor#haha#lol#memes#Philosophy#salt#sea salt
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Na + Cl -> NaCl (sodium chloride aka table salt)
#chemistry#science#sodium chloride#food#salt#studying#studyblr#insidesjoke#memes#meme#funny#student memes#humour#humor#comedy
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G’Kar: how would you describe salt to someone who’s never interacted with it if you can’t say “salty”?
Delenn: I would say salt is ionically bonded and crystalline, and to humans, is usually “sodium chloride” or “halite”.
Londo: salt has perfect cleavage.
G’Kar: …
Delenn: he’s not wrong, you know.
G’Kar: I think that’s what’s the most annoying about his statement.
#who are queue? what do queue want?#incorrect babylon 5 quote#the ambassadors™️#G’Kar#Delenn of Mir#londo mollari#source: @therighthandofvengeance#salt#sodium chloride#a little geology with today’s incorrect quote#G’Kar was trying to get to some philosophical point and Londo was trying to get to Adira
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Vegan Tamago Kake Gohan (Vegan Egg Yolk)
#vegan#appetizer#vegan egg#japanese cuisine#asian cuisine#carrots#kabocha squash#miso#black salt#kala namak#sodium alginate#calcium chloride#nutritional yeast#olive oil#soy sauce#nagaimo#rice#furikake#togarashi#veganized
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Salt?
What do you need salt for?
Are you trying to invoke an age-old superstition?
#dougie rambles#personal stuff#my poor attempt at a joke#salt#sodium chloride#shut up Adric#this sounded funnier in my head#doctor who#wild blue yonder#tangentially#superstitions#shitpost
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Table salt offers a safe, inexpensive and reusable pathway to recovering useful products from plastic waste
Muhammad Rabnawaz, an associate professor in Michigan State University's School of Packaging and recent inductee into the National Academy of Inventors, has always believed that the most brilliant solution is also the simplest. That belief is reflected in his team's new publication in the journal Advanced Sustainable Systems. Rabnawaz and his colleagues showed that sodium chloride—table salt—can outperform much more expensive materials being explored to help recycle plastics. "This is really exciting," Rabnawaz said. "We need simple, low-cost solutions to take on a big problem like plastics recycling." Although plastics have historically been marketed as recyclable, the reality is that nearly 90% of plastic waste in the United States ends up in landfills, in incinerators or as pollution in the environment.
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#Materials Science#Science#Plastics#Polymers#Waste#Salt#Sodium chloride#Recycling#Polyolefins#Michigan State University#Catalysts
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i was reading that article on th previous post and i know nobody cares about this but omg they really dont know shit about salmiakki
#if you dont know#salmiakki is ammonium chloride#its a white powdery substance#its used to flavor liquorice to make it a salmiakki candy#i suppose you COULD call it a type of salt🙄#but they make it seem like salmiakki is just liquorice covered in regular salt#and they also make it seem like the salmiakki is just speckled on top#like#its IN the liquorice too even if its not covered in whote powder it still tastes like salmiakki#i feel way too strongly about this sorry#i love salmiakki#but yea nobody cares thats why i put this in a separate post
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I legitimately don't know the difference between a slug and a snail except one can explode with sodium chloride.
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Ionic Bonding
#element cats#valentines day#sodium#chlorine#ionic bonding#science#chemistry#sodium chloride#salt#halite#na#cl#nacl#art#periodic table#artists on tumblr#feral furry#ship art#element cats: na#element cats: cl
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Your last drabbles where really yummy, I know this is weird but I want to eat your writing.
I think your writing would taste like candied fruit. Which is my favorite snack (っ˘ڡ˘ς).
Have you ever tried candied fruit? If not you should! The best ones are Grapes and strawberries.
AAAAA that's so sweet thank you 😭 this has been added to the list of compliments that i'm never going to let go of mwahahah
and yess i've tried candied strawberries, they were so nice 😩 but never candied grapes oh my :O i will have to buy some. although i never see them for sale at the shops. when i tried candied strawberries it was at a wedding so idk where they even got them from lol. the only place i could think to buy them is the tiktok shop 😭 i am literally always getting ads for ppl selling candied fruit salads and edible arrangements!!!
anyway this made me think about what some of my moots' writings would taste like 🤔
#s0dium would definitely be salt#but ik i'm only saying that bc#yk...#sodium chloride#and vivvie would be cherries#but again ik i'm only saying that bc of the red theme 😓#ZERO creativity on me#sorryyyy#in my defense#i don't have lexical-gustatory synesthesia#chattingcube
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how dare you remind me of athelstan
DONT YOU FORGET HIM!
#answered#beloved mutuals#he died for the showrunners sins#the amount of vitriol i have for this whole thing#uncanny#funny how#in later seasons#they captured a girl#and it took a whole two episodes for ragnar to sleep with her#mmmhhhhhhhhhh#STRANGE#ALMOST AS IF#THEY DIDNT HAVE THE BALLS#TO DO THAT WITH ANOTHER CAPTURED PERSON#anyway it's been like what#8 years????#call me sodium chloride baby cause the salt is still there#vikings#athelstan
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The addition of the diazonium salt derived from 4-nitroaniline to a basic solution of phenol instantly gives a brilliant red dye (figure 19.21).
"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.
#book quotes#chemistry#nonfiction#textbook#diazonium salt#nitroaniline#phenol#red dye#azo dye#nitrobenzenediazonium chloride#red#naphthol#blue#purple#sodium hydroxide
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Why is this health nut site trying to tell me sea salt is better than iodized table salt because "sea salt doesn't give you hypertension"??
#like the actual literal guffaw i made when reading that before tabbing out in disgust#chemistry doesn't work like that. biology doesn't work like that. salt is salt is sodium chloride whether it has iodine in it or not#anyway i fuckin needed a lot of salt today to not pass out and now I'm really craving berries??#food#hypotensive ass#also of note apparently goiters are on the rise now that health foodies think iodinized salt is less healthy/organic than sea/pink salt#nevermind that salt isn't an organic to begin with
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some pediatricians refer to children under 2 years in months so its probably hard to turn off, not to mention im sure most parents miss the days their babies were 0-12 months old :)
i know its done in medical settings i think it makes sense in that context its just when youre talking to someone casually and theyre like "this is my 23 month old" like i cant do math that fast in my head just say hes two you know. be normal about it
#jade answers#anonymous#i cant relate to the last sentiment i think small babies are so scary#im not a child hater i just dont want to hold a baby with a wobbly head ever it freaks me out. why are their heads so wobbly#when they can walk around and stuff then i think theyre cool as hell#referring to your kid by months instead of years reminds me of that scene in jimmy neutron where his boss is like#hey jimmy can you sweep that salt off the floor#and jimmy is like 'ah yes sodium chloride!'#and his boss is like 'umm actually thats salt'#and jimmy is like 'thats what i said. sodium chloride:)' like just say salt jimmy
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