I think you’re being a bit one-eyed there Ianwil … a bit like Vanadis aka Freya’s husband, Odin.
Only he sacrificed his eye in order to gain insight and wisdom and, if you employ yours, you’ll remember there are plenty of other women who are important to AVL
…So getting back to those basic facts, let’s look into history once again, but not mythological realms, and time travel 50 years back to Sydney to introduce any vanadium novices out there to young chemical engineer at UNSW called Maria Skellas-Kavacos.
Maria’s back at UNSW these days - as an emeritus professor
https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/emeritus-professor-maria-skyllas-kazacos
and UNSW has (notably) just launched a vanadium battery-focused course in its Engineering Department.
However back in the swinging 70s ..
(when the pretty diaphanous nightie look sported by Vanadis in her chariot was replaced by mini skirts and knee boots) .,,, Maria and her team were the ones who
invented the Vanadium Redox Flow Battery!
Legendary but no myth there!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science...y-and-future-of-grid-energy-storage/101911604
'..We were 20 years too early'
In the 1970s, during an era of energy price shocks, NASA began designing a new type of liquid battery.
The iron-chromium redox flow battery contained no corrosive elements and was designed to be easily scalable, so it could store huge amounts of solar energy indefinitely.
A 200-watt demonstration unit of the flow battery NASA built in the 1970s.(Supplied: NASA)
Several years later, in Australia, a young chemical engineer at UNSW in Sydney named Maria Skyllas-Kazacos started studying these new kinds of flow batteries.
Within years, she and her research team developed another kind of flow battery, one that used vanadium instead of iron and chromium.
Like the NASA design, it was safe, reliable, long-lasting and easily scalable.
Unfortunately, there wasn't much of a market for energy storage.
"We understood at the time we were 20 years too early," recalled Professor Skyllas-Kazacos, who is still with UNSW.
"We always knew the big applications would be renewables and solar but it took a lot longer for the market to develop than we expected."
Professor Skyllas-Kazacos and her research team in 1988 with the first laboratory prototype vanadium cell.(Supplied: UNSW/Maria Skyllas-Kazacos)
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And then there’s Flor - AVL’s own very highly respected executive general manager for project delivery!
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If you read the threads here from yesterday, you’ll see she attended breakfast with the Prime Minister here in Perth.
And here’s another photo from earlier this year;
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She’s the one on the left, and she’s standing with members of a team from our ‘partner company’ US Vanadium (who as you saw in the second post produces world class vanadium products).
And she’s holding a vial of purple electrolyte solution because AVL is pretty proud that - using US Vanadium technology - it’s been able (since February?) to make vanadium electrolytes for Vanadium Flow Batteries too - here in Australia
So it’s not all about Vanadis is it?
We have ‘goddesses’ galore !
(20min delay)