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Liquid Batteries for Utilities Could Make Renewables Competitive

MIT team makes progress toward goal of inexpensive grid-scale batteries that could help make intermittent renewable energy sources viable.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–February 14, 2012.  The biggest drawback to many real or proposed sources of clean, renewable energy is their intermittency: The wind doesn’t always blow, the sun doesn’t always shine, and so the power they produce may not be available at the times it’s needed. A major goal of energy research has been to find ways…

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