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Letter: Cheaper vanadium makes for a good flow battery

Published 12 February 2025

From Simon Goodman, Griesheim, Germany

Considering redox flow batteries, you state that they rely on “metals like lithium and cobalt, which are in short supply”. In fact, many such batteries use cheap and common vanadium salts. This makes them attractive bulk electricity storage systems (18 January, p 19).

Issue no. 3530 published 15 February 2025

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