Inside GE’s
New Battery Factory
High-tech
ceramics are the key to making a new energy storage technology.
Thursday,
July 19, 2012
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 NovelBattery 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.
read more:
GE’s Novel
Battery to Bolster the Grid