Sam Evans
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first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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The flowing architecture separates energy storage capacity from power delivery.
Want more storage?
You simply increase the volume of slurry in the external tanks.
No need to redesign the electrochemical cell itself.
That's exactly the kind of scalability you want for long-term duration storage, soaking up excess solar and wind generation during the day, and then, of course, releasing it when the sun goes down or the wind drops.
Zinc is actually very cheap.
It's abundant and it's safe.
There is no thermal runaway risk and no exotic materials in these batteries at all.
Now the caveats.
This is a laboratory scale demonstration.
The team says their next step is translating the concept toward practical long duration storage systems, optimizing the slurry chemistry, improving system integration, and even exploring whether other metals would work as flowable energy carriers beyond zinc.
These batteries won't go into EVs.
This is for energy storage.
Here's my take.
The grid storage race is not just lithium versus sodium or lithium ion phosphate versus sodium.
Long duration storage is the missing piece that makes 100% renewable grids possible.
And a zinc slurry that runs for seven months straight with near perfect efficiency is a pretty serious contender, let's be real.
If this scales, the economics of overnight and multi-day storage change completely.
Will it scale?
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