Panasonic has on display at CEATEC a “1.5 kWh battery module [made] from 18650-type (18 mm in diameter x 65 mm in length) lithium-ion battery cells, which are widely used in laptop computers, to provide energy storage solutions for a wide range of environmentally friendly energy technologies.” String a couple of these suckers together to store the juice collected from the solar panels on your house, for example.
If solar power is to sissy for you, maybe you’d be interested in the Panasonic Fuel Cell Cogeneration System, which “generates electricity and hot water simultaneously at home”?
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Great invention but those batteries heat up something awful. I see this as a potential fire hazard. The real winner in that sector will be VANADIUM batteries. Vanadium adds 5 fold power to Li-ion and vanadium redox batteries are the perfect storage solution for all scales of renewable energy supply. Read about them here: http://www.execdigital.com/Magazine.aspx?id=1585&page=26
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Here’s to the “batterification” of the future.