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New lead battery technology could be lower-cost solution to store solar energy

MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 01, 2021 | 6:10 am Battery Metals Education Energy News USA Lead Lithium 

US-based engineers have joined forces to develop high-voltage reference batteries for behind-the-meter energy storage applications, based on a bipolar technology that uses silicon wafers in traditional lead batteries.  The wafers are similar to those in photovoltaic cells and the idea...

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