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“World’s first working thermal battery” promises cheap, eco-friendly, grid-scalable energy storage

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New Atlas April 1, 2019

South Australia has recently put the world’s biggest lithium battery into operation – but perhaps it should’ve waited. A local startup says it’s built the world’s first working thermal battery, a device with a lifetime of at least 20 years that can store six times more energy than lithium-ion batteries per volume, for 60-80 percent of the price.

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