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Why are there no flow batteries with symmetric ferrocyanide electrolytes?

40 pointsby DamonHDlast Wednesday at 10:39 AM23 commentsview on HN

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ambicapterlast Wednesday at 1:33 PM

Glad I finally have a name (flow battery) for a concept that I've been wanting to be made for a long time (liquid batteries).

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mshafirlast Wednesday at 11:56 AM

Thank you for this, as somebody with almost no background in chemistry, I can now appreciate just a bit more the complexity that goes into battery development. Where does one learn about this?

stuaxolast Wednesday at 2:12 PM

Cyanide batteries... hmm..

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kakaciklast Wednesday at 12:25 PM

To give the answer its the cyanide part... which I knew already when looking at the title, without having much clue about underlying chemistry.

Good luck selling batteries full of some variant of cyanide to general public, i can almost imagine it working till people hear that keyword.

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theturtlelast Wednesday at 11:38 AM

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