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Open source battery technology could change the landscape of renewable power

5 pointsK0balt3 comments

I'm just here plugging this because I feel like its a really, really big deal that is easy to overlook.

This isn't some speculative new technology, this is a well proven and developed technology being open sourced to the world. Think REPRAP but for batteries.

Right now, batteries are the bottleneck for most renewable energy systems. They have a high initial and recurring cost. They are manufactured only in highly specialized facilities, and they often include problematic materials.

What if home / microgrid scale storage batteries could be readily manufactured from easily accessible parts and materials, lasted 20K+ cycles before needing an overhaul (not being recycled) and could easily be scaled to meed evolving needs?

This is exactly the promise of open-source redox-flow batteries. Have a look at https://fbrc.dev/ to see what I believe is one of the most important potential developments in renewable energy in the last few decades.

Three-point belt, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt

>The three-point belt was developed by Nils Bohlin, who had earlier also worked on ejection seats at Saab. Volvo then made the new seat belt design patent open in the interest of safety and made it available to other car manufacturers for free.

GPS, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System

>After Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a Boeing 747 carrying 269 people, was shot down by a Soviet interceptor aircraft after straying in prohibited airspace because of navigational errors, in the vicinity of Sakhalin and Moneron Islands, President Ronald Reagan issued a directive making GPS freely available for civilian use, once it was sufficiently developed, as a common good. The first Block II satellite was launched on February 14, 1989, and the 24th satellite was launched in 1994. The GPS program cost at this point, not including the cost of the user equipment but including the costs of the satellite launches, has been estimated at US$5 billion (equivalent to $10 billion in 2023).

Your post would possibly gain more traction if you give a direct link. And put all of your thoughts in a comment on that link.... Just a thought.

Thanks, maybe ill give that a try in a few days.

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