A marriage made in sunlight: Invention merges solar with liquid battery
Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 14:58
in Physics & Chemistry
As solar cells produce a greater proportion of total electric power, a fundamental limitation remains: the dark of night when solar cells go to sleep. Lithium-ion batteries, the commonplace batteries used in everything from hybrid vehicles to laptop computers, are too expensive a solution to use on something as massive as the electric grid.