"World's first working thermal battery" promises cheap, eco-friendly, grid-scalable energy storage

South Australia has recently put the world's biggest lithium battery into operation – but perhaps it should've waited. A local startup says it's built the world's first working thermal battery, a device with a lifetime of at least 20 years that can store six times more energy than lithium-ion batteries per volume, for 60-80 percent of the price.

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Category: Energy

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• Battery
• Grid-Level Energy Storage
• Renewable Energy
• Silicon

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