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    Researchers at MIT have come up with a new way to store energy inside a modified concrete, a tantalizing potential solution to the looming energy storage problem. The new concrete could turn whole homes into Batteries
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    Researchers at MIT have come up with a new way to store energy inside a modified concrete, a tantalizing potential solution to the looming energy storage problem. The new concrete could turn whole homes into Batteries


    Researchers at MIT have come up with a new way to store energy inside a modified concrete, a tantalizing potential solution to the looming energy storage problem. The new concrete could turn whole homes into Batteries

    https://futurism.com/the-byte/new-concrete-stores-electricity-homes-batteries

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    1. Hashirama4AP on

      TLDR:

      As the BBC reports, MIT researcher Damian Stefaniuk and his colleagues turned a mix of water, cement, and carbon black, a highly conductive material used in the manufacturing of car tires, into a supercapacitor.

      While supercapacitors aren’t nearly as good at long-term energy storage compared to lithium-ion batteries, they can be charged and discharged very quickly, making them an intriguing complement to conventional batteries.