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gilleain 14 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why are there no flow batteries with symmetric fer...

A vanadium one, which (as mentioned in the piece) is symmetric.

The 'Just Have a Think' channel did a video on the Swiss battery here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPAFeTvjVzY

pfdietz 14 days ago [–]

The advantage of vanadium batteries, as I understand it, is that leakage does not corrupt the system. The vanadium gets converted to the right chemical species on either side.

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