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Great concept, but would like to see more R&D to get better discharge rates for normal household usage. Also recharge rates are , well , poop.
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looked at these, but discharge rate is so low that you need a lot in parallel to get a sensible output wattage…so it becomes too expensive compoared to say LiFePo4 batteries….
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they wouldnt even tell you the price unless you phoned up a consultant and booked an appointment. Take a look at Nickle Iron Oxide batteries instead, long lasting, recyclable, hard to destroy and easy to maintain, 30-50 year life.
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Cost is high, benefits minimal – my AGMs will last at least ten years and can be recycyled very easily. Tragic.
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Aquion filed for bankruptcy in March this year. This technology is probably just not market ready and just needs some fine tuning. They were done in by increases in capacity for Li ion batteries with a sharp decline in price as well.
In future, this should be amazing. Whether you are an off-gridder, thrifty, live in extreme weather areas or whatever, this would be fabulous. Non-toxic and inexpensive at $250/kW hour storage. Want to keep my eye on this.
Interesting but like Leigh Sunders I also realized that they didn’t mention price at all.
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the company went under unfortunately. bad business practices and poor performance. luckily though their designs have already been bought by other battery manufactures to hopefully pick up the slack.
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Aquion has been reopened once again by a British firm. Solar PV Partners.
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These companies don’t always go under because the technology was faulty — rather it was because they lacked sufficient investment capital. If they were subsidized to the extent that the fossil fuel industry is, they would be thriving and expanding. But people continually expect the renewable energy industry to be entirely self sufficient while ignoring how conventional energy and technology gets all the government money and support it wants. ?
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… first thing you see on the website is that they just went bankrupt and can’t support any product they’ve already sold. So sorry.
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How much do they cost all these alternative eneffgy things are too expensive thus not pratical.
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Thanks for reaching out to Aquion Energy. As a former customer of the company we are sure that you read in the press release dated July 21, 2017 that Aquion has “emerged” from Chapter 11 restructuring and bankruptcy. We have prepared this short FAQ in hopes of providing a clearer picture to our former customers
Reply look into it when they were in business the first time, completely over priced. I hate it whe idiots try to be “creative financially” with viable sustanable tech. Its like the guy who figured out how to use low temperature gases in radiators to collect latent heat, condence that heat, and then use it to power an advanced redesigned modern steam engine that powered a generator. basically this thing worked 24 hours a day, even in low temperature snow. but heck, trying to buy your way in to get one, 50 -100k.. so anyone who actually needed to supply their own power (you know those without money) need money to do it.. which kind of defeates the attempt at providing people off grid alternitive clean energy. Usually, once you figure out how its done, you can head down to the hardware store and make one out of parts off the shelf. thats why they play all these games..
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The company is bankrupt and restructuring, so why is this being posted. Whom ever is doing these posts check before posting wasting my time is not acceptable….
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Sadly it appears Ecosnippet doesn’t bother checking it’s sources…lazy journalism seems the thing these days in all media; especially social media ??????
Reply Last time you posted this I checked and the company had folded…. Have they resurfaced or you just uncritically republising old news?
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Eco snippets just keep reposting old stories, although by their standards this is new as it is only from 2016
Reply kind of sucks they folded. I wanted to find out how the tech works and if it could be done by someone who didnt want to spend the insane amount of money they wanted. As usual, an alternitive idea goes bye bye.
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