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Antora Energy Closes $550 Million Series C to Scale Carbon-Block Thermal Battery Manufacturing
Antora Energy raised $550 million to expand production of its carbon-block thermal batteries and build a second U.S. factory, following a 5 GWh South Dakota deployment.
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Fudan Team's Flowing Zinc Slurry Battery Runs 5,128 Hours at 99.94% Coulombic Efficiency
Fudan University researchers built a flow battery using circulating zinc slurry instead of a fixed electrode, retaining 81.1% capacity after 5,500 cycles.
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Fourth Power Nears Completion of Thermal Battery Prototype That Stores Grid Energy as White-Hot Heat in Liquid Tin
The MIT spinout plans to demonstrate a 1 MWh thermal battery in Bedford, Massachusetts this year, using graphite bricks heated to 2,400 degrees Celsius and liquid tin to deliver grid-scale storage at a claimed $25 per kilowatt-hour, a fraction of lithium-ion costs.
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