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Honestly, Vanadium is a blind hole. Vanadium is too expensive. The Iron flow batteries are already here and are significantly less expensive. And soon, I think they will be even less expensive.

Iron runs about $600/MT where Vanadium is around $1.6-2.0M/MT, a factor of ~3,000.

I do agree that it was stupid for the Chinese to be sold the technology.
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