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“There are also tried-and-true alternatives to lithium-ion batteries that may be best suited to certain applications. For example, the vanadium flow battery has been around for decades, but it has a much lower energy density than lithium-ion—not great for electric cars. However, its long lifetime, reliability, safety, and rapid response rate may make it a better option for storing large amounts of energy from the electricity grid.”
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Podcast about Tesla’s new battery and if the market is ready for it
(https://soundcloud.com/the-energy-gang/teslas-new-battery-is-the-market-ready)

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“As Belizean police combed the property of expat antivirus pioneer John McAfee Sunday afternoon, McAfee was closer than they could have known. He’d seen them coming, and says he hid — burying himself in the sand with a cardboard box over his head so he could breathe. “It was extraordinarily uncomfortable,” he says, in an exclusive interview with Wired. “But they will kill me if they find me.”
“It’s Google, the social also-ran, that knows your real secrets. It knows the things you wouldn’t ask your friends. It knows things you can’t ask your spouse. It knows the things you haven’t asked your doctor yet. It knows things that you can’t ask anyone else and that might not have been asked at all before Google existed. Google’s servers are a repository of the developed world’s darkest and most heartbreaking secrets, a vast closet lined with millions of digital skeletons that, should they escape, would spare nobody.”
(https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jwherrman/why-google-not-facebook-knows-your-darkest-secre)