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title: "Meet \"Methuselah,\" an Organic Mega Flow Battery"
description: Harvard researchers have designed and built an organic battery that is the longest-lived such battery—it’s been dubbed “Methusela” after the biblical character. Organic flow batteries are the cheaper and potentially safer alternatives for large-scale renewable energy storage.
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# [Meet "Methuselah," an Organic Mega Flow Battery](https://northerncal.swagelok.com/blog/semiconductor-breakthrough-electrical-contact-to-molecules-0)

 Written by [Jeff Hopkins](https://northerncal.swagelok.com/blog/author/jeff-hopkins) | 8/31/18 4:00 PM

Harvard researchers have designed and built an **organic battery that is the longest-lived such battery**—it’s been dubbed “Methusela” after the biblical character. Organic flow batteries are the cheaper and potentially safer alternatives for large-scale renewable energy storage.

[Read the article by Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences →](https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2018/07/organic-mega-flow-battery-transcends-lifetime-voltage-thresholds)

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