During World War II a scientist named Georg Otto Erb developed the molten salt battery for use in military applications. The war ended before Erb’s batteries found any real use, but British ...

BioLargo Energy Technologies claims that its molten salt-based battery thrives in heat and can be a better alternative for traditional energy storage devices. These new batteries must be heated to ...

The scientists described the battery in “ A freeze-thaw molten salt battery for seasonal storage,” which was recently published in Cell Reports Physical Science. This content is protected by ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a battery with two electrodes made of aluminum and sulfur, and a molten salt electrolyte placed between them. They said the sulfur ...

So too for molten salt reactors (MSRs), which saw Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) create a number of prototypes, starting in 1954 when the Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) reached first ...

Nuclear innovation company TerraPower has received approval from the Wyoming Industrial Siting Council on its permit for the ...