<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Come see FBRC at FOSDEM 2026!]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">We will be presenting at FOSDEM 2026 and hope to see you there! Kirk and Daniel will be presenting at 12:30 on Saturday, January 31 in the Energy track in room AW1.126. Full details <a href="https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3EEZZB-open-source-batteries/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>, including the link to the livestream (talk should also be recorded and watchable later).</p>
<p dir="auto">The title of the talk is "Scaling up open-source batteries: what's worth pursuing?". Here is the abstract:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Storing energy reversibly is useful. For clean energy, electrochemical batteries are one of the most attractive options. Most battery technology is proprietary, hard to recycle, and complicated to manufacture. What if that wasn't the case?</p>
<p dir="auto">We will present our collective and individual efforts with the Flow Battery Research Collective (<a href="https://fbrc.dev/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://fbrc.dev/</a>) to build open-source batteries for stationary storage applications. This includes our flow battery work, such as efforts to build a larger-format cell with simple manufacturing techniques like laser cutting and FDM printing, as well as our different experiments with flow battery electrolytes based on zinc, iodine, iron, and manganese.</p>
<p dir="auto">We will also cover our individual efforts to build conventional, non-flow flooded batteries based on water and the above elements (including this work by the speaker Daniel: <a href="https://chemisting.com/2025/05/23/a-low-cost-open-source-cu-mn-rechargeable-static-battery/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://chemisting.com/2025/05/23/a-low-cost-open-source-cu-mn-rechargeable-static-battery/</a>). We will discuss the economic hurdles facing practical implementations of these systems.</p>
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]]></description><link>https://fbrc.nodebb.com/topic/55/come-see-fbrc-at-fosdem-2026</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 20:10:32 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://fbrc.nodebb.com/topic/55.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:23:42 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Come see FBRC at FOSDEM 2026! on Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:19:07 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Video of the talk is now available here!</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://video.fosdem.org/2026/aw1126/3EEZZB-open-source-batteries.av1.webm" rel="nofollow ugc">https://video.fosdem.org/2026/aw1126/3EEZZB-open-source-batteries.av1.webm</a></p>
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