FULLY CHARGED: Battery Storage & How to Make it Better

Season 5 - Episode 11: As wind and solar experience rapid growth and a growing share of power grids, the intermittent nature of renewables underscores the need for effective energy storage technology development. EV batteries will need their own tech advancement for nervous consumers with range anxieties to make the switch to electric mobility.
Hosts David, Sara, and Ed chat with battery storage expert Dr. Shirley Meng of the University of Chicago
About Our Guest:
Dr. Y. Shirley Meng is a Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. She serves as the Chief Scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Meng is the principal investigator of the research group - Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC), that was established at University of California San Diego since 2009. She held the Zable Chair Professor in Energy Technologies at University of California San Diego (UCSD) from 2017-2022.
About Our Co-Hosts:
David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of Carbon Engineering and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He splits his time between Canmore and Chicago.
Sara Hastings-Simon studies energy transitions at the intersection of policy, business, and technology. She’s a policy wonk, a physicist turned management consultant, and a professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Development.
Ed Whittingham is a clean energy policy/finance professional specializing in renewable electricity generation and transmission, carbon capture, carbon removal and low carbon transportation. He is a Public Policy Forum fellow and formerly the executive director of the Pembina Institute, a national clean energy think tank.
Produced by Amit Tandon & Bespoke Podcasts
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[@UChicagoPME]

Fantastic discussion!

[@energyvsclimate]

Thank you!

[@davidwilkie9551]

High powered panel.

[@davidwilkie9551]

Chemical Bonding Clarified through Quantum Mechanics is the Phys-Chem book offered to beginning Engineers and the Math Prof had a POV that you just look at it to guess Feynman style and Wheeler's Intuition to see the omnidirectional-dimensional Origin of Logarithmic Time Duration Timing Sublimation-Tunnelling Calculus at Susskind's Singularity-point Lensing holography-quantization circumstances of Black-body Holographic Principle relative-timing relationship with the functional Absolute Zero-infinity reference-framing Aether Actuality.
I would assume any of Shirley's students are already 20X ahead in their ideas about Holographic Nucleation Battery Circuitry. First fix the Nomenclatures for nodal-vibrational emitter-receiver log-antilog inclusion-exclusion timing-phase positioning materialisation, a pure-math coherence-cohesion assembly of relative-timing resonance objectives in coordination perspectives.

[@jasonb444]

I´m interested in overnight storage paired with solar, either PV or CSP, allowing for a 5MW - 15MW plant to operate 24/7. Surprised you didn´t cover molten salt storage, there are new CSP technologies with molten salt storage that look interesting.