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hunter

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9. I know people are messing around with NiMH cells taken from wrecked hybrid cars.

Reply to MindMover (Reply #8)

Sat Dec 7, 2013, 01:53 PM

Dec 2013

Newer hybrids are using lithium.

There's also the good old Edison Battery. Those are available again and are very robust, but not as efficient and more expensive than lead-acid batteries.

Anyone who has worked with lead-acid batteries will learn to loathe them, and they are a major toxic hazard in places where recycling technologies are primitive, which is MOST OF THE WORLD.

Some of the liquid metal battery designs look interesting. In these two liquid metals and a salt electrolyte are separated by density.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid/a-liquid-metal-battery-for-grid-storage-nears-production

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