RE: The new super metal11 Oct 2018 07:26
MTB - good find
It is worth repeating:-
Vanadium is superior to lithium in every way. Not only does it have eternal life (unlike lithium), it’s not explosive, flammable or toxic.
Not only can it be scaled up cheaply, but it’s actually cheaper to scale it up, making it the antithesis of lithium.
Put in another way: It’s tough to scale up a lithium-ion system. If you double the size, you double the cost. Not so with vanadium: All you have to do is make the tank bigger, and the bigger the scale the lower the (per MWh) cost.
For those who might be wondering whether UBM’s Wray Mesa Project 2.7 million pounds of contained vanadium is a lot or not it is equivalent to 1.230 kiloTonnes of contained Vanadium.
Vametco is 1080 kilotonnes - so almost 900 times larger. Brits is about the same as that. Mokopane is about double both of them put together.
If you want (need) Vanadium you have to come to the Bushveld.