Evan Bernstein

They say it'll last for about 6,000 charge cycles, translates into about 16 years of daily use, could be far cheaper than lithium ion because iron is about 80 times cheaper as a raw material, okay?

But it shows zero degradation in lab testing.

Ooh, there it is.

Okay, maybe we're onto something here.

Zero degradation, that could be.

So I looked a little bit further and the article links to the original source reporting on the news item.

And I hope that shed some light.

And actually it did.

So they go back over to the website called Interesting Engineering.

And I think I've been to that website before.

And their headline reads...

China develops iron battery 80 times cheaper than lithium that can last for 16 years.

Okay.

It provides a budget-friendly, high-endurance answer for the world's massive energy storage needs.

Okay.

I keep reading.

And then I finally get to the core of what's driving the news, the new part.

Chinese Academy of Sciences has an advanced all-iron flow battery technology with a newly formulated electrolyte that facilitates thousands of charge-discharge cycles."

The development solves the longstanding issues of material degradation and leakage by reengineering the iron complex at the molecular level.

That's it.