What is Liquid Electricity? - A great seminar topic for engineers.

From what I understand, Liquid Electricity isn't real (yet). As a part of silent films, it was used to showcase a liquid substance that's generally glowing and stored in bottles. In some films, it was shown that the 'liquid electricity' is used to provide energy and super-speed when used as a fuel for automobiles, aircraft, and machines of all sorts.
In 1987's movie Spaceballs, a similar substance called "Liquid Schwartz" is used to power a spaceship in the same manner as liquid electricity.

Even if the term is derived from science-fiction, possibly is that going to become a real thing?

Well, that said, quite interestingly a lot of engineers are google liquid electricity as a topic of their seminar in colleges. That led me to think that it might've become a real thing.. meaning research on it must be progressing.

I googled up to find the available information on the topic, and came up with the following resources.

Liquid Electricity as fuel for automobiles of the future:

Every car's battery needs to be recharged. What recharging does is to change the state of the electrolyte fluid in the batteries. Innovation Network in Utrecht, a Dutch government research organisation, has come up with a solution. They suggest pumping the spent electrolyte out and pump in freshly charged electrolyte — literally, liquid electricity.

A paper by Saurabh Gupta on Liquid Electricity
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Cambridge Crude—The Liquid Fuel in a New Battery Architecture
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^ That's the only concrete work I could find on the topic.

Would like to know the opinions of CEans on Liquid Electricity. What is Liquid Electricity? Where is it headed? Can it ever be a real thing? What needs to be worked upon?

Please respond below.

Replies

  • showstealer
    showstealer
    Great post! !! I appericiate your work ma'am . Surely a great topic to be worked upon . But It is really disheartening to see that there is no reply on this topic yet.
  • Ankita Katdare
    Ankita Katdare
    Hmm. We might have to tag people who could be keen on discussing this concept.
  • Poonam Chaskar
    Poonam Chaskar
    hello mam, I like this topic & I would like to knw more about liquid electricity
  • Chand Mondal
    Chand Mondal
    interesting ......
  • Ramani Aswath
    Ramani Aswath
    Ankita Katdare
    Can it ever be a real thing? What needs to be worked upon?
    May be something is already on.
    Quote:
    Aston Martin will debut its most powerful vehicle yet. Bugatti will display the final installation of the legendary Veyron. Not to be overshadowed by #-Link-Snipped-#, Lamborghini will reveal upgrades to the Aventador. Mercedes delivers a lime-green mini monster truck. Audi will announce the R8 e-tron, an all-electric sports car with better specs than a Tesla Model S. Even so, perhaps none of these are as significant as the nanoFlowcell Quant F. The company released the Quant E at Geneva last year, and returns in 2015 with the improved Quant F.

    Flow Battery Technology
    As the name suggests, the Quant F is powered by flow battery technology. Flow batteries are a NASA spin-off that have existed for decades, but have always had trouble obtaining a comparable energy density to Lithium-ion batteries.
    Endquote

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  • Ankita Katdare
    Ankita Katdare
    There has been several references to liquid electricity as a fictional substance that powers up things.

    In the 1987 movie called 'Spaceballs', something called the "Liquid Schwartz" was used to power a spaceship. See the video here:

  • VIJAY.G AMAR
    VIJAY.G AMAR
    Hello sir I like to take seminar about liquid electricity i know something about it but i need some help to give my presentation about liquid electricity
  • Ramani Aswath
    Ramani Aswath
    A whole lot of research publications on Flow Battery Technology here:
    Google Scholar
  • VIJAY.G AMAR
    VIJAY.G AMAR
    A.V.Ramani
    A whole lot of research publications on Flow Battery Technology here:
    Google Scholar
    Sir what is the relation between flow battery technology and liquid electricity
  • Ramani Aswath
    Ramani Aswath
    Flow Battery Technology is 'liquid electricity' in lay man's parlance.
  • raghasudha
    raghasudha
    can somebody explain what is meant by liquid electricity.....??

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