Don't think it's that old "Copyright 2014 - 2017 NextSource Materials Inc. All Rights Reserved"
Anyway I see in the article this
Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute, the German government’s research organization that employs around 18,000 scientists and engineers, announced on March 31, 2011 that they are working to expedite the development of vanadium flow batteries.
This Aussie guy has just started working with them.
"Dr Menictas will showcase the advances made on the vanadium oxygen redox fuel cell (VOFC) over the last two years and also detail the CENELEST alliance established in 2017– a partnership between UNSW Engineering and the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT in Germany.
The VOFC work follows on from the pioneering research UNSW Engineering has been conducting since the 1980s on vanadium flow battery systems, which was led by their creator Emeritus Professor Maria Skyllas-Kazacos.
What makes VOFCs a step up from the older prototypes is that they can halve the footprint of a traditional vanadium battery system while also having the capability to double the energy capacity.
And with what is essentially a quadrupling of energy output in a smaller space, the implications for industry and sustainable energy consumption make this a potential game-changer.
Dr Menictas imagines a time not far from now where refuelling of a car would be as convenient and as swift as filling up a car with petrol at a servo today.
“You could recharge a VOFC battery in an electric vehicle simply by draining the electrolyte from your battery and then filling up with recharged electrolyte. The service station could then recharge the spent electrolyte utilising renewable energy, and the recharged electrolyte could then be used in another vehicle."
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