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Recharging of this liquid will take the same rare earth element that you
place at the refueling station using will find in the newest cell phones,
special recharging equipment that iPads, and notebook computer bat-
will be part of the overall system. Photo 1—Prototype of a Cambridge teries. Of course the semi-solid flow
The restored-to-full-electric-potential Crude pumping station cell infrastructure is completely
solution will then be held in the
refueling station’s storage tanks until that contain a suspension of tiny Alan Pierce, Ed.D., CSIT, is a tech-
it is exchanged with the liquid from floating lithium-ion particles. The nology education consultant. Visit
another vehicle. semi-solid flow cell battery will store www.technologytoday.us for past
At this time, the new battery looks the cathode and anode solutions in columns and teacher resources.
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