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These batteries will provide grid-level electricity storage and thus are seen as a solution to the most common problem with clean energy production

U.S. President Barack Obama has championed ?multi-megawatt vanadium redox fuel cells? for mass-storage batteries as ?one of the coolest things I?ve ever said out loud.?

Speaking to some of America?s most illustrious business leaders at a brainstorming forum in Cleveland last month, his light-hearted, upbeat remarks underscored his enthusiasm for clean energy solutions, ones that his administration is committed to supporting.

Powerful vanadium-reliant fuel cells (known as VRBs) would help achieve his goal, outlined in his most recent State of the Union address, to generate 80% of the nation?s electricity from renewable sources by the year 2035.

Other governments and major corporations around the world are also investing vast amounts of money into the electrification of energy supplies, and a critical part of that electrification campaign is vanadium.

Indeed, vanadium has been creating quite a buzz in clean energy circles of late