The Liquid Metal Battery Missing Link to Renewable Energy

Professor Donald Sadoway, recipient of one of the ARPA-E awards, explains his work on liquid metal batteries, a technology that could make possible grid-scale energy storage.
PHOTO COURTESY OF DONALD SADOWAY, MIT

What’s the key to using alternative energy, like solar and wind? Storage — so we can have (battery) power on tap even when the sun’s not out and the wind’s not blowing. This video presentation by inventor Donald Sadoway takes to the blackboard to show us the future of large-scale batteries that store renewable energy. As he says: “We need to think about the problem differently. We need to think big. We need to think cheap.”

The Changing Energy Landscape will be a major theme discussed at GLOBE 2014 taking place March 26-28, 2014 in Vancouver Canada, where practical solutions and innovative emission-reducing technologies will be on display. Check here for more information.