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The Grid's Missing Piece Has Been Sitting in Your Toolshed the Whole Time

Iron-air batteries store energy through controlled reversible rusting, can discharge for 100 hours, and target a cost below $20 per kWh. Form Energy is shipping commercial units and just announced the largest battery deal in history with Xcel Energy and Google. The renewable grid's intermittency problem may have found its answer in the most abundant metal on Earth.

By Dr. Nadia Osei · 4 min read

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Nuclear Does Not Replace Renewables for AI Power. It Completes Them

AI data centers will consume more electricity than Mexico by 2030, and they need that power around the clock. The debate over nuclear versus renewables misses the point entirely: the grid that powers artificial intelligence needs both, and the contracts already being signed prove it.

By Crash Davis · 4 min read