'Wetting' a battery's appetite for renewable energy storage

Friday, August 1, 2014 - 08:30 in Physics & Chemistry

Sun, wind and other renewable energy sources could make up a larger portion of the electricity America consumes if better batteries could be built to store the intermittent energy for cloudy, windless days. Now a new material could allow more utilities to store large amounts of renewable energy and make the nation's power system more reliable and resilient.

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