SciShow: The Surprisingly Retro Future of Batteries

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Content of the Lesson: SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. Renewable energy may be the way of the future, but in order to store that energy to make our grids more sustainable, we might need to take a look back at some battery technologies of the past. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/268/1/012006 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128129029000031 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781483284217500855 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261917313569 https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780123749918/renewable-energy-system-design https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/4814531.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544219321140 https://www.elsevier.com/books/the-power-grid/d-andrade/978-0-12-805321-8 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3530/e9a7a38d57f80d165986f1c02f321bda160d.pdf https://www.sandia.gov/ess-ssl/publications/SAND2015-10759.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128129029000067 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12206-009-1133-6 https://www.furukawa.co.jp/en/release/2015/kenkai_150415.html https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1163/156855102753613273 https://www.elsevier.com/books/storing-energy/letcher/978-0-12-803440-8 https://www.elsevier.com/books/energy-storage-for-sustainable-microgrid/gao/978-0-12-803374-6 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/788977 https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2019/07/f65/Storage%20Cost%20and%20Performance%20Characterization%20Report_Final.pdf https://www.aemc.gov.au/sites/default/files/content/7ff2f36d-f56d-4ee4-a27b-b53e01ee322c/CSIRO-Energy-Storage-Technology-Overview.pdf http://www.cse.psu.edu/~buu1/papers/ps/sigmetrics12.pdf https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/bitstream/10044/1/6451/1/Read-M-2011-PhD-Thesis.pdf https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6063756 https://www.sandia.gov/ess-ssl/publications/SAND2015-3976.pdf https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1861&context=etdr https://www.ipp.mpg.de/4244138/generatoren http://www.euro-fusionscipub.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/JETR99013.pdf https://www.elsevier.com/books/power-electronics-applied-to-industrial-systems-and-transports/patin/978-1-78548-033-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28025-5 Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:G2_front2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Example_of_cylindrical_flywheel_rotor_assembly.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Department_of_Energy_-_Science_-_419_001_007_(10190966554).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boyle_air_pump.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flywheel_from_old_factory.jpg


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