<story><title>Form Energy reveals the chemistry of its long-duration battery</title><url>https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/worlds-cheapest-energy-storage-will-be-an-iron-air-battery-says-jeff-bezos-backed-start-up/2-1-1044174</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2sk21</author><text>“We’ve completed the science, what’s left to do is scale up from lab-scale prototypes to grid-scale power plants.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t even count the number of lab-stage announcements that I have seen in HN. This will be of interest only when they can get it to scale</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cogman10</author><text>This is quite a bit more promising than a lot of those projects.  They are actually manufacturing the batteries for a battery plant.  That&amp;#x27;s quite a bit further along than a lot of battery announcements are.</text></comment>
<story><title>Form Energy reveals the chemistry of its long-duration battery</title><url>https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/worlds-cheapest-energy-storage-will-be-an-iron-air-battery-says-jeff-bezos-backed-start-up/2-1-1044174</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2sk21</author><text>“We’ve completed the science, what’s left to do is scale up from lab-scale prototypes to grid-scale power plants.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t even count the number of lab-stage announcements that I have seen in HN. This will be of interest only when they can get it to scale</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epistasis</author><text>I think the difference that makes me optimistic about Form is that their executive team is extremely experienced with bringing products to market. This is no guarantee, and the publicity at this moment in time might be more about their recent round than anything else, but I have a much better feeling than a random new tech from an academic lab.</text></comment>