Battery made of aluminum, sulfur and salt proves fast, safe and low-cost

Battery made of aluminum, sulfur and salt proves fast, safe and low-cost
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I'm curious to know if this would also be suitable for grid-scale storage, it seems like an odd ommision in the article. The description certainly implies that this would be a good use but I wonder if there is an issue that I'm not seeing that would make them less useful for that?

Not being flamable sounds like a good thing for house and charging station level storage, although heat management might be an issue in smaller houses. I've always been a bit uncomfortable about the idea of a large li-ion battery pack in my house, given the difficulty of extinguishing fires that involve them, I'd be happier with something like this assuming the thermal management could be dealt with.

So am I, but I think we're not different from people who are afraid of using planes. Yes, it's really bad when it happens, it just doesn't happen all that often and when it does it ends up in the news. Just like cars are more dangerous than planes even when you have li-ion battery it probably has very low impact on total probability of your house burning down because of other potential sources.

Plus somehow people seem to be afraid of wall mounted battery while having no problem with EV car parked in the garage.