A new battery that relies on cheap organic molecules can help store renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy for cloudy and breakfast-free days.
As the municipal power grid requires continuous power flow, scientists have been trying to find ways to store electricity from intermittent sources.
The new battery relies on quinones, which in the January s discovered many common chemicals in life forms that help to maintain energy for later use. 9 .
The previous design of similar batteries used metal compounds and the price could be high instead of five ones.
The device is a mobile battery in which two separated liquids enter and exit the battery through the electrode.
The membrane in the middle of the cell prevents the mixing of the two solutions, but allows the ions to move between them.
In order to charge the battery, electricity will generate quinone