Lead-Carbon Batteries An Energy Storage Revolution
February 3, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Lead-Carbon batteries are a possible game changing energy storage technology. The Economist published an article about Axion Power International titled “Lead-acid Batteries Recharged” and Sandia National Laboratories released a report detailing side-by-side testing of lead-acid, lead-carbon and Li-ion batteries.
A conventional lead-acid battery is a simple affair, made up of a series of cells each containing a positive electrode made of lead dioxide and a negative electrode of metallic lead. These are immersed in an electrolyte of dilute sulphuric acid. Read more
