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The Liquid Metal Battery: Innovation in stationary electricity storage

School of Convergence Science · talk · Watch on YouTube

Renewables, batteries & storageMaterials sciencePower grid, heating & buildings

What it is

MIT's Donald Sadoway presents the liquid metal battery as a design for grid-scale stationary electricity storage, at an Imperial College London event in 2018. He covers the grid benefits of massive-scale storage.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN brings it up in energy storage threads as a promising scalable grid storage technology, and calls it worth the hour.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “It's an hour long, but it's well worth the time investment.”

    Sadoway's liquid metal battery design for utility-scale storage.

    digibri, 2019-07 · Strong recommendation · in “Megapack: Utility-Scale Energy Storage”

  2. “I think this guy is onto something... Liquid metal batteries will be better than gravity storage IMHO.”

    Case for liquid metal batteries over gravity storage.

    lebuffon, 2021-04 · Recommendation · in “Gravity batteries try to beat chemical ones with winches, weights, mine shafts”

  3. “There are some promising techs out there, like Liquid Metal Battery”

    Promising alternative technology for grid storage.

    RobertoG, 2021-07 · Recommendation · in “Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: liquid metal battery, donald sadoway, grid storage, batteries, mit

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