“We will be able to inject or absorb up to 1.2 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity in a few milliseconds,” FlexBase co-founder Marcel Aumer told Swiss public broadcaster RTS earlier this month.

No. No you will not. I’m gonna go ahead and call bullshit. Like the sum total of all shit from every bull to have ever existed and to exist in the future combined.

1.2 GWh in “a few” milliseconds (let’s generously call that 100ms) is ~43 Petawatts. Peak power demand in the US is only ~800 GW. Globally maybe a few TW (<10?).

Depending on which search result you click, the earth receives between 89 and 175 PW of solar radiation. This is the actual fucking Sun levels of power.

This is especially bullshit because flow batteries are specifically designed to decouple power and energy, allowing them to store waaay more energy without all that pesky power infrastructure.

I’m not the Swiss government but I would think twice about buying anything from that particular snake oil salesman.