{"id":740021,"date":"2013-03-01T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=615570"},"modified":"2013-03-01T03:00:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T08:00:38","slug":"fluidic-shows-a-peek-of-its-metal-air-batteries-for-off-and-on-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740021","title":{"rendered":"Fluidic shows a peek of its metal air batteries for off and on the grid"},"content":{"rendered":"

A quiet startup in Scottsdale, Arizona called Fluidic Energy<\/a> showed off its grid-scale metal air batteries for one of the first times in a video at the ARPA-E Summit<\/a> this week (embedded below). The battery technology was developed at Arizona State University by ASU Materials Science Professor and Fluidic founder Cody Friesen, and spun out several years ago.<\/p>

The video shows Fluidic’s batteries installed under what looks like a radio or cell phone tower, and Friesen said that the company’s batteries are already being tested in the field in developing markets where the grid is unreliable as a replacement for diesel generators or lead acid batteries. Friesen said that using the “tens of millions of cell hours in the field,” the company plans to target the grid market in the U.S. <\/p>