Illinois start up claims 5X power lead over lithium with nano fuel

If you believe an Illinois start-up that has been in stealth for several decades and which only went public with its discoveries this year, it has the perfect replacement for both lithium ion batteries and hydrogen for powering transport. That company is called Influit Energy, and it relies on a fascinating re-design of flow batteries where the anode and cathode are nano materials suspended in an aqueous fluid. You charge the particles inside the suspension, which act like cathodes and anodes, but which are actually fluids, and then set up an ion flow through an exchange membrane to create the power (see diagram). This creates what CEO John Katsoudas calls a High Energy Density Nanofluid, and he is abundantly clear…