Evan Bernstein

Now, hold on a second.

I got to that point and I had to stop.

The headline red iron battery

But the claim says iron flow battery.

Those are two different things, as it turns out.

So the headline's not even matching the article at this point.

The main difference, from what I could tell, between the iron battery versus the iron flow battery lies in how they store energy and their physical design.

A standard iron battery stores energy in solid electrodes, and an iron flow battery stores energy in liquid electrolytes kept in external tanks.

Iron flow batteries are not a new form of battery technology.

And certainly iron batteries are not either.

So where's the new part in this, right?

The first word in the headline was new.

Was it the fact that, you know, 16 years?

Is that the impressive part?

Well, I looked into that as well.

And 16 years for an iron flow battery does not really seem to be anything so special or out of the ordinary.

And I found references for iron flow battery technology that's in production now that claim 20 years.

of life.

So what is it they're saying here?

Well, all right, let's go back.