The Future Of Energy Storage Beyond Lithium Ion

The Future Of Energy Storage Beyond Lithium Ion

Over the past decade, prices for solar panels and wind farms have reached all-time lows. However, the price for lithium ion batteries, the leading energy storage technology, has remained too high. So researchers are exploring other alternatives, including flow batteries, thermal batteries, and gravity-based systems.

CORRECTION (March 14, 2020): At 12:53 we incorrectly identify the size of the energy storage market. Overall, the energy storage market is predicted to attract $620 billion dollars in investments by 2040.

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The Future Of Energy Storage Beyond Lithium Ion

50 Comments

  1. @jays5926 on January 31, 2025 at 6:04 pm

    Lithium is the way forward because of recycling companies coming into play

  2. @joblow-g5u on January 31, 2025 at 6:05 pm

    Dayi 0:08

  3. @mikeweber4142 on January 31, 2025 at 6:06 pm

    holy crap, stop it!! Gravity Vault is a Scam!

  4. @piepkwiep4312 on January 31, 2025 at 6:08 pm

    Store energy in sand or basalt. Or in Bitcoin.

  5. @thekinarbo on January 31, 2025 at 6:10 pm

    Nuclear power is the most energy dense source of power there is. It’s zero emission, has a small footprint and it not weather dependant/it’s available 24/7/365 and can power a modern industrialized economy.
    Solar and wind are ugly and are not the future.

  6. @mdsohajgazi6687 on January 31, 2025 at 6:10 pm

    Back to the same thing, solar doesn’t work without sunlight, and if solar doesn’t work, the battery won’t charge. Bad project. I have a better idea.

  7. @GarrickPinon on January 31, 2025 at 6:11 pm

    Flow battery 4:14
    Iron flow batteries 6:10
    Pumped hydro 8:17
    Gravity batteries 9:02
    Thermal Storage 10:26
    Thermo Photovoltaic Cell 11:09
    Compressed air 11:58
    Cryogenic Storage 12:04

  8. @markc8210 on January 31, 2025 at 6:12 pm

    make hydrogen with solar during the day, burn at night to run generator.

  9. @TGWazoo1 on January 31, 2025 at 6:13 pm

    So not only are we to destroy thousands of acres of vegetation and habitat for wind farms and solar panels, but also ANOTHER few thousand acres for the electrical storage.

    BTW you will be lucky to have any reserve electricity to store from wind or solar. They already cannot keep up with normal power demands.

  10. @bhaskararya9830 on January 31, 2025 at 6:14 pm

    Thankyou for recording this ❤

  11. @SHKim-uv4wo on January 31, 2025 at 6:15 pm

    전기의 저장은 Gravity Battery가, 수소의 저장은 이퓨얼(E-FUEL이 미래입니다.

  12. @bhaskararya9830 on January 31, 2025 at 6:15 pm

    thank you for recording this ❤

  13. @macktanian6270 on January 31, 2025 at 6:20 pm

    Someone should bio-engineer trees to be batteries. And make sure they look different than other trees. The trees could then regenerate energy while it is being taken out from them. Infinite energy. Problem solved. I reinvented the wheel as the spherical tire and my design idea was stolen long ago, but this one will keep trees around and potentially save the planet so you can use it freely. Unfortunately though, while I had the entire design of the spherical wheel and tire all laid out, I do not know enough about genetic engineering to flesh out this tree battery idea for you.
    Personally, I am not sure why Goodyear went with regenerative technology rather than ways of retreading the spheres, but it is interesting I guess.

    I am a firm believer in kinetic energy stored into batteries and think that people should work on improving batteries in unique ways and maybe even reinventing how energy is stored completely.
    Even the trees swaying in the wind could generate that kinetic energy and be stored into batteries so why do they need to build giant windmills that require costly upkeep?

    Everyone who has acquired ideas from me no matter whether directly or indirectly should pay me $50 a month and I will help come up with new ideas for their businesses.

  14. @briankgarland on January 31, 2025 at 6:20 pm

    Or….build more nuke plants and call it a day.

    #dumbasses

  15. @raysolpv on January 31, 2025 at 6:20 pm

    solar is the future, never doubt on that.

  16. @nayankalita2068 on January 31, 2025 at 6:21 pm

    This panel can put out close to 100 watts https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxOqI2yqX0XVrhR2BMJciTWrHJpG8FhJyg when positioned in the appropriate southernly direction, tilted to the optimal angle for your latitude/date, and connected to a higher capacity device than a 500. The built in kickstand angle is a fixed at 50 degrees. Up to 20% more power can be output by selecting the actual date and latitude optimal angle.The 500 will only input 3.5A maximum at 18 volts for 63 watts. Some of the excess power from the panel can be fed into a USB battery bank, charged directly from the panel while also charging a 500. This will allow you to harvest as much as 63 + 15 = 78 watts.If this panel is used to charge a larger device, such as the power station, then its full output potential can be realized.

  17. @martintroianov7953 on January 31, 2025 at 6:24 pm

    Produce hydrogen and use it when is needed.

  18. @abrahamchebochok6740 on January 31, 2025 at 6:24 pm

    Great revolution to advance green future.

  19. @sandorvarga7437 on January 31, 2025 at 6:25 pm

    Vrau.bami.mek.cjes/990.billion.lire/data/28/oct/2024

  20. @gerriejordan7064 on January 31, 2025 at 6:26 pm

    Making the desert a large piece of it into a sand battery and directing the excess power that you can’t store into that and harness

  21. @olooalfredo on January 31, 2025 at 6:29 pm

    From Coursera’s Renewable Energy Fundamentals course. Like if you are.

  22. @MichaelEBlake-kl8qq on January 31, 2025 at 6:30 pm

    Watt, awesome IP presents. E User#michaeleblake35😅

  23. @thomasmintah7053 on January 31, 2025 at 6:31 pm

    Please may I get a document on this video? It would really help me with my project work.

  24. @BritishAnts on January 31, 2025 at 6:31 pm

    “Flooded the market” means they didn’t over charge their customers like the fossil fuel suppliers do weekly! I’m guessing who ever set the vocals on this article is sponsored by fossil fuel or has a gender? 😂

  25. @thekinarbo on January 31, 2025 at 6:31 pm

    For one Tesla auto battery 500,000 lbs of ore must be mined. Cobalt uses child labor.

  26. @MH-Tesla on January 31, 2025 at 6:32 pm

    Wow, this didn’t age too well as massive battery storage has literally transformed entire grids just 3-4 years after this published.

  27. @dsbmwhacker on January 31, 2025 at 6:34 pm

    Green Energy in Fantasyland"
    It is ALL a big lie.
    The people promoting such preposterous agendas are oblivious to facts, engineering and science….and the gullible, uninformed, so called "educated" people eat it up without question.
    In the future, this will be looked upon as the most ignorant time in history.
    The politically corrupt likely have a stake in promoting this insanity…follow the money.

  28. @MH-Tesla on January 31, 2025 at 6:35 pm

    2:25. They are ALWAYS wrong about the rate of disruptive technology. 2023 was 510 gigawatts. It’s called "S-curve" adoption. Exponential growth. But they keep just drawing a straight linier line devoid of ANY historical models. 😢

  29. @ahmadfadhil4711 on January 31, 2025 at 6:36 pm

    Keep pushing the boundaries of innovation in this field. i’m eager to see further developments and advancements in the years to come

  30. @barseico on January 31, 2025 at 6:37 pm

    Redox Flow Batteries – The future and solution especially in Australia as Vanadium is plentiful and companies are already positioning to get access especially US and Japan. https://youtu.be/TSsqCazP1V0?si=BxszYdZb7n1dO3hq

  31. @redcaliber9679 on January 31, 2025 at 6:38 pm

    TESLA LEADS THIS ! TESLA IS AMAZING! THE RADICAL LEFT WING BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SPREAD PROPAGANDA AGAINST ELON!

  32. @simonbowman6206 on January 31, 2025 at 6:44 pm

    THE TIME FOR WIND AND SOLAR IS CLOSING
    As of today Green energy is in real jeopardy of loosing its credibility.
    The public are becoming aware of the issues of having landfill made of green technology waist Wind farm blades today being cut up and placed in landfill Or Even worst ground up and added to wet concrete and solar is no better than wind for recycling.
    Now other ideas are growing but are they good? Pump hydro requires 40% more power than is returned so the power bill rises.
    Now i am not saying make more dams before those that know my tech far from it Just Make It More Efficient… My system is retrofittable to water and hydro dams to make more power from the same current flow rate. Now let me add 100yrs life and dam near 100% recyclable

  33. @Paul-e9x4h on January 31, 2025 at 6:46 pm

    Teknologi yang menggunakan energi Surya sebagai power supply adalah salah satu teknologi ramah lingkungan, dan dampak jangka panjangnya akan membuat keberlanjutan dalam menjaga kelestarian alam dan ini sangat bagus sebàgai permodelan yang dipilih dalam pengembangan alih teknologi

  34. @tigerphid9677 on January 31, 2025 at 6:46 pm

    For decades I have opposed solar and windmills because they are inefficient and intermittent. Now all of a sudden environmentalists are telling us that we need a complex and expensive new layer of storage technology, which is massively increasing the cost of ‘green’ energy. Lithium mining also is more damaging to the environment than any other type of mining. You should have listened to me.

  35. @GarrickPinon on January 31, 2025 at 6:46 pm

    Super insightful

  36. @SolmaxSolarpanel-vs4tq on January 31, 2025 at 6:48 pm

    PV ground bracket +Easy and fast installation without punch holes. Match 980mm-1134mm width solar module.

  37. @redcaliber9679 on January 31, 2025 at 6:49 pm

    LOOK UP TESLA ENERGY!

  38. @sangmin6350 on January 31, 2025 at 6:51 pm

    Which one?

  39. @spartanguts480 on January 31, 2025 at 6:53 pm

    "International Solar Alliance" Equatorial countries on solar and grids interconnected

  40. @jtkrpm1 on January 31, 2025 at 6:54 pm

    And none of it can exist without fossil fuels.

  41. @NoahBuehler on January 31, 2025 at 6:55 pm

    The Gravity storage is fundamentaly stupid. We calculated in our Physics class once how much energy you could store in such a thing. The answer is absolutely laughable. Hydro power is the only viable form of gravity storage. (Because you just have an insane amount of mass with usually a very large height delta.)

  42. @AbdulMajeed-hx4jv on January 31, 2025 at 6:56 pm

    Good information 👍

  43. @amiava4213 on January 31, 2025 at 6:57 pm

    This video is over four years old. And you know what? We are no closer to having grid level battery storage than we were 100 years ago. Anyone who wastes their time trying to invent some kind of grid level battery storage system should also spend their vacation time searching for Sasquatch. Delusional imbeciles.

  44. @jaimegonzalez5271 on January 31, 2025 at 6:57 pm

    One day we are going to store energy in our own bodies and create energy with our own bodies too

  45. @worldfamous260dewitt on January 31, 2025 at 6:59 pm

    Yes just like that.I think like this

  46. @jacknkhoma6360 on January 31, 2025 at 7:00 pm

    We are all energy. As long as we blink, walk, run and ride and brake we can generate and store energy that we can discharge while we relax. Make shoes that can generate energy! We open and close doors, drive or are driven e.g. Manual doors can produce power, the braking system of automobiles produces energy from inertia. The roads of the future will produce energy for nations because they will be equipped with devices that will be producing power from vessels rolling on them.

  47. @tonyhladun9081 on January 31, 2025 at 7:01 pm

    This is a good video but until we have 1GWh batteries it’s all a bit of hopium. If we’re serious about climate change we need a WW2 Manhattan project to develop large scale batteries. What’s happening now is that by the time batteries are available wind and solar will be discredited (because they’re unreliable) and the damage will be done. Wind and solar generation is being installed willy-nilly in the greenwashing "carbon neutral" scams with no place for the generation to go.

  48. @quartytypo on January 31, 2025 at 7:02 pm

    Problem is not battery storage. Problem is getting enough power into them from solar and wind turbines to avoid blackouts.

  49. @sandorvarga.6982 on January 31, 2025 at 7:03 pm

    VRAU.bani.mej.ches 990.billion/£/DATA. 20.maj.2023

  50. @sandorvarga7437 on January 31, 2025 at 7:03 pm

    Vrau.bani.mej.ches/990.billion
    Lire/data/30 oct/2025

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