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Donald Sadowy's Liquid Batteries

LMBC is commercializing liquid metal battery technology invented at MIT for grid-scale energy storage

Compiled by Congress:Founder:Sterling D. Allan

Pure Energy Systems News

April 17, 2012

MIT Professor, Donald Sadowy, has been pursuing a dream of creating a cost-effective liquid battery for grid-level storage. Rather than tap the expertise of professionals in the field, his approach has been to train new students with the task. And they have formed a new company, Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC) to expedite bringing their successful formula to market. The idea is to be able to make the batteries larger to bring their cost down, rather than making many small batteries and combining them.

Their battery uses magnesium (Mg) in the top layer and Antimony (Sb) in the bottom layer, divided by a liquid salt layer. To produce current, Mg looses two electrons, to become a Mg2+ ion, which travels through the electrolyte salt layer into the Sb layer, accepting two electrons to form an SbMg alloy.

That process is reversed when current is added to the mix, such as from a wind or solar farm or other energy source that needs to be stored.

Battery attributes include: silent, emissions-free, no moving parts, remotely controlled, designed to the market price point, without subsidy. Running at elevated temperatures, the battery can handle the temperature rises that come from current surges.

Major funding has come from the private sector (including Bill Gates and Total) and the U.S. Federal Government.

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Official Websites

http://lmbcorporation.com/ - corporate site

http://alum.mit.edu/pages/sliceofmit/2012/04/10/liquid-metal-battery/

In the News

See http://www.lmbcorporation.com/news/ - coverage includes Discovery, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Green Car Congress, RenewableEnergyWorld, TED, NPR, Mass High Tech

Google News > Liquid Metal Battery Corporation

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Latest: Directory:Batteries > Directory:Utility Scale Batteries > Directory:Liquid Metal Battery Corporation - Liquid Metal Battery Corporation, founded by an MIT professor and his students, is commercializing a battery technology for grid-scale energy storage. Their battery uses magnesium in the top layer and Antimony in the bottom layer, divided by a liquid salt layer. (PESWiki April 17, 2012)

Donald Sadowy Liquid Batteries TED Talk - He recently spoke at TED 2012: Full Spectrum -- here's a video of that (CleanTechnica April 14, 2012)

MIT Liquid Metal Batteries for utilities could make renewables competitive, and it's not lithium ion (CleanTechnica February 20, 2012)

Contact

http://lmbcorporation.com/contactus/

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation

237 Putnam Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02139

For general inquiries, contact:

Ph: (617) 714-5723

Fax: (617) 714-5297

Email: [mailto:admin@lmbcorporation.com?subject=LMBC%20featured%20at%20PESWiki.com admin@lmbcorporation.com]

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