Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Iron-Chromium Flow Battery Aims to Replace Gas Plants Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 22:02:34 +0100 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <53937DEA.20403@scorecrow.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net bwenabv+vRoL0UB7pj3QFw5GxlDyX/SpsFiLeTazwylDdsuSnQ Cancel-Lock: sha1:VAgRMP7U8wigIJp+VHidiKgrdTI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:3547 On 02/06/2014 11:44, Rich wrote: > http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid/new-flow-battery-aims-to-replace-gas-plants From the linked article: > The company projects it can deliver energy for utilities and other users > at a cost of less than $250 per kilowatt hour. For $250 per *kilowatt* hour it would be almost be cheaper to employ Tour de France cyclists to pedal dynamos. ;-) -- Bruce Horrocks Surrey England (bruce at scorecrow dot com)