NASA tech might just spur a major grid battery breakthrough (canarymedia.com)

58 points by orangebanana1 3y ago ↗ HN

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java-man 3y ago ↗

A variant of Ni-H battery.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93hydrogen_batter...

Valgrim 3y ago ↗

Anyone knows what the mystery catalyst might be?

s1artibartfast 3y ago ↗

Here's a paper from the CTO about nickel Cobalt phosphate batteries

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=EnerVenue&hl=en&as_sdt=...

s1artibartfast 3y ago ↗

Update:

It looks like they have filed a few patents with a ruthenium-based electrocatalyst.

https://patents.google.com/?assignee=EnerVenue&oq=EnerVenue&...

idontwantthis 3y ago ↗

That doesn’t sound super cheap. Global production is 35.5 tons per year.

s1artibartfast 3y ago ↗

800 megawatts hours of contracts and delivery Milestones this year sounds promising, but it's always hard to get excited about a company that doesn't publish performance specs on its website. Has anyone seen any literature on the product?