Inside GE’s New Battery Factory
High-tech ceramics are the key to making a new energy storage technology. Photographs by Kevin Bullis | Technology Review
To manufacture its new sodium-nickel batteries, which could be used to store power from wind turbines or help power remote cell-phone towers (see “GE’s Novel Battery to Bolster the Grid”), GE has opened a large factory in Schenectady, New York. Here’s a look inside it at some key steps in the manufacturing process.
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