How to build a battery that replaces a coal plant
Zero: The Climate Race
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The Energy of Iron Rusting
When people think of iron rusting, they don't really think about energy. So where is energy coming into all of this? Yeah. This is a battery after all. We do not have months to wait for that oxidization to just sort of happen naturally. It's very much a controlled reaction that we're driving. Iron in the wild gives up its electron for free. Essentially, it goes somewhere else. And the trick is that we capture that electron in this liquid environment where this hydroxide ion can do the work that we needed to do. so it's sort of a...
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