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Author Kirk Pollard Smith

Updates from Form Energy My hot take no one asked for I don’t want to sound pessimistic. But Form Energy has benefited immensely from the MIT / Yet-Min Chiang / Mateo Jaramillo / Ex-Tesla hype-sphere, and I will wait to be excited about their technology when I see it working, at scale, for a long time, at an affordable price.

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Author Kirk Pollard Smith

I sip slowly from the information firehose that is my cornucopia of industry newsletters, RSS feeds, and Google Scholar updates on new publications in the flow battery landscape. There’s not enough time to give everything a proper read, and often if I see something useful I just file it away in Zotero for it to collect digital dust.

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Author Kirk Pollard Smith

My collaborator Daniel shared an update on his blog about our the progress of our open-source flow battery kit, so I thought I’d do the same. This was motivated by my previous post (Smith 2024). We’ve been working together with Prof Sanli Faez and Josh Hausener at Utrecht University on their FAIR Battery Project, though the repository for my cell design and jig is currently here.

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Author Kirk Pollard Smith

Towards the end of 2022 I drafted this, consider it a work in progress - it was before I had joined forces with Daniel to form the Flow Battery Research Collective Motivation for an open-source flow battery This project aims to develop an open-source flow battery design suitable for mid-scale manufacturing by a well-equipped hackerspace or conventional machine shop.