2024-05-08 17:00:02
Researchers from MIT and CNRS have shown that it is possible to make concrete capable of storing electricity.
Will it one day be possible to store the energy produced by a house’s solar panels in its concrete foundations? Or to charge the batteries of electric cars using energy stored in the road? In Boston, a team of researchers from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in conjunction with scientists from the Wyss Institute at Harvard, recently demonstrated that it was possible to transform cement to make a kind of battery, by simply adding carbon and water. It then becomes a “supercapacitor” which behaves like a battery with two compartments which can charge when connected to a source of electricity.
Much work still needs to be carried out to demonstrate that this technique works on a large scale, but the proof of principle has already been published in the journal Pnas last summer. This method could, for example, make it possible to store renewable energies…
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