This new battery could re-industrialize America - if we let it
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2024
- America has some of the best solar and wind energy in the world - and this company thinks they’ve found a cheap, reliable way to store it.
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We need energy to fuel our lives. And we need to be good stewards of the environment. But can we really achieve both? Innovators at Antora Energy, a hard-tech company, think so. They believe their solution can tackle a major challenge with renewable energy: Its power generation is unpredictable. To prove their solution works, they’re attempting to revolutionize heavy industry's energy dependence through a unique carbon-based battery system.
Antora's solution is a solid carbon battery capable of storing large amounts of energy when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, enabling an abundant, reliable energy supply. This has the potential to significantly reduce heavy industry's emissions, which currently account for around 30% of global emissions. Compared to lithium-ion batteries and other energy sources, Antora says its carbon battery offers similar energy storage and usage at a fraction of the cost.
Antora believes this technology could potentially drive a shift in the energy landscape and a re-industrialization in the US powered by renewable energy. Despite regulatory challenges, Antora envisions a future of universal access to abundant, zero-emissions energy.
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How does this NOT look like an ad?
Infomercial!
more like infomercial,,,for a battery ,with tens of thousands of cycles produces no toxics ,doesn't rely on hostile governments and is cheep ,,, deal its capitalism
A 7.5 min video and all you learn is, we store heat in a graphite block.
No word on how much energy can be stored, how much energy is lost through losses, how electricity is generated from the stored heat, how efficient this electricity generation is or what the longevity of this storage is.
Just a vacuous commercial.
Hi there. Thanks for the feedback. Antora's thermal battery is capable of outputting both heat and electricity. To output electricity, the system uses thermophotovoltaics (TPV) to convert light from the glowing-hot carbon blocks into electricity, much like solar photovoltaics convert light from the sun into electricity. Antora built the world’s first dedicated manufacturing line for thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells, achieving a major milestone in the production and scalability of TPV technology. Checkout @AntoraEnergy to learn more.
@@StandTogetherCC Thank you for your feedback!
Happy to help. Thanks for watching!
Agreed, this level of incompetence in the presentation doesn't speak well for the battery.
@@StandTogetherCC Yeah, next time talk about this kind of stuff. You literally spent the first four minutes of this video reiterating the problem being solved. 🤦♂
This is an excellent of example of what entrepreneurs can achieve with a bold vision. Energy storage is one of the most important technologies we have that can radically reduce emissions, and thermal batteries look well positioned to play a major role in the market.
Volts podcast on March 24 talked to a different thermal battery company and did a great job explaining things imo.
Replacing Salt with Carbon is expensive and useless. And also expensive.
Does anyone knows how many thermal circles this bricks can take before needing replaced?
Now please make one for a single family home.
Several companies do already
An ad for technology innovation? Yes, but that is what's needed to advance solutions beyond the costly "tried and true" inefficient and polluting methods.
Why not generate green hydrogen on site and burn that hydrogen like natural gas?
As far as I understood the electrolysers only have a life span of 7 years on average, then you need to use a new electrolyser. Also you lose a lot of energy efficiency compared to other green alternatives. Maybe... if electrolysers would become a lot cheaper, this could become a profitable solution.
Why use the energy to reach 2000 degrees? Why not use that energy in a electrical facility to create steam and turn turbines?
Very slick, persuasive video. Keep up the great research!
This is a no brainer. 1) Graphite thermal batteries can store as much energy as lithium batteries for a fraction of the cost, and 2) because of the massive expansion of wind and solar, energy prices are often negative if not extremely low which makes thermal batteries far more profitable than fossil fuels. Industry can literally get paid to use heat, rather than paying for heat.
Well. So every brick of pyramid is actuallu an engery stroage unit?!
I understand that they are conserving heat but why wouldn't they opt for a spherical design even if the manufacturing process is slightly harder isn't the shape more conducive to heat storage? I wonder what factors are stopping it. Also how is the heat transfered?
exactly correct Dustin good to know someone else saw that also
It’s not harder young chap, it’s more expensive
Cheaper than fossil fuels is a forward looking statement. Investors, do your own homework. They did not mention anything about a block of carbon catching fire when it is glowing cherry red. Was the container filled with nitrogen? Refill each time you open the container? Cost of nitrogen?
Do they release carbon into the air at a very slow rate?
No. There's no carbon release at all.
@@blainecollison surprising since heat is used. Almost everything that's heated out gasses.
How do you get electricity from hot graphite? Is it creating stream that turns a turbine or what? Video doesn't say.
You're not getting electricity from hot graphite. You're getting industrial-grade process heat from graphite that's been heated up with (often) renewable electricity. Industrial applications need heat. Thermal energy storage (TES) - which is what Antora is making - turns renewable electricity into reliable, inexpensive process heat. It's fantastic stuff!
@@blainecollisonthanks for the explanation makes a lot more sense
A lot of industrial processes don't need "electricity" or "fuel," they need heat
@@unoriginalname4321 in that case how do they transfer the heat from where it's stored to where it's used? How mucb energy is lost in transfer? Would be nice to know these things.
@@L1m3rI think it uses the photoelectric effect
Is this an ad? They say almost nothing about their technology, and wasted 7 minutes of my time talking about their "vision" etc. How do they convert heat to electricity? How do the economics stack up? We'll never know because this is just a fluff piece.
The rich won't let it happen unless they get richer from it, so no benefit to the public either way. How does it work, what converts the heat into usable energy & what is its efficiency%
This is so cool
Glad you like it!
Can we create the blocks using carbon capture technology?
Capturing current emissions to create the storage to operate the emmitor in the future.
We are past the tipping point already and will have massive climate changing catastrophic issues to deal 2ith and human migration on a scale never witnessed so even a .01 percent reduction between now and emmission free is helpfull😊
Is that happening in your neighborhood. Do you even have the data? I do for my community. Unbelievably stable!
Where does one go to see the climate crisis?
It seems it only exists on TV and online.
The climate crisis doesn't pass the window test.
Now send 5 to the taliban ASAP... wait a minute