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Are Vanadium Flow Batteries Worth the Hype?
Season 9
Episode 16
There’s a century-old battery technology that’s taking the grid-scale market by storm. Based on water, virtually fireproof, easy to recycle, and cheap at scale, flow batteries could be the wave of the future.
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