A Hydrogen Thorium Batter

10-meter cube of Thorium can store 100 tonnes of Hydrogen. Size:

 A small house

A shipping container

A swimming pool

100 tonnes of Hydrogen is 3.3 GW/h of electricity. Equating to:
 

Large Coal Power plant

1.5 times the Huanghe $2.3 billion-dollar Solar Park and 10x its storage.

The 35th Largest Hydroelectric Dam. Bath County Dam

Thorium is completely shielded by the battery container. It is 0.1% (‘1000 times less’) as radiological as Uranium.

A Hydrogen Thorium battery uses simple pressure and temperature (200c) to adsorb and release Hydrogen

Thorium is expensive until you mass produce it from cheap low-grade Titanium Dioxide minerals which contain a strategically interesting 3-5% ‘Rare Earth’ mineral bi-catch. Specific low-grade Titanium Dioxide is cheap as no one currently wants the biproduct Thorium.

A Hydrogen Thorium battery has few, if any, geographic, geological or situational limitations.

This is pioneering research by Professor Animesh Jha of Leeds University represented by the Academic spinout Silex World.

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This is a starting point which Leeds and Silex World Ltd will be happy to explore with all interested parties. A development process can take this from bench top, to pilot, to grid infrastructure scale up.