Here is an interesting idea for a new type of electric car

[StevieM]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/22342508-418/iit-argonne-get-34m-grant-to-improve-electric-car-battery.html

and

http://www.anl.gov/articles/arpa-e-awards-iit-argonne-team-34-million-breakthrough-battery-technology

It sounds promising. What does everyone think about the potential for this concept?

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Ick. Stick with real liquid or gas fuels, and fuel cells.

Why haul around a liquid that needs to be recharged ? Flow batteries will never get over that weight disadvantage.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Lots of ideas like this sound promising but never make it out of the lab, because they can't solve

some fundamental problems that make the product work in the real world.

[silverweb]

3. That's what research is all about.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Coming up with and testing new, different, and improved ideas.

This may fizzle completely or it may turn into something spectacularly viable. That's exactly what the research is for and why we need it.

[madokie]

4. Exactly

One step at a time