Comment on Solid-state battery hits 381 Wh/kg as Taiwan mass production begins
Allero@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Looking forward to similar discoveries in the sodium ion batteries.
These numbers are cool, and we may never see them that high with sodium, but we really need to get them to the level when we could use them in things like powerbanks and electric vehicles, and not just grid-scale storage.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Of course it is. It’s not rare and can be recycled.
Allero@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Lithium is relatively rare, and very environmentally damaging to mine. Recycling is absolutely a must, but, as with any recycling, the recovery is not 100%.
Sodium is obviously hugely abundant and we already have relatively eco-friendly salt mining for many centuries.
keepthepace@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 month ago
“relatively” does a lot of work here. Lithium is not going to be a scarce ressource any time soon: https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2025/mcs2025-lithium.pdf
Allero@lemmy.today 1 month ago
TIL.
Thanks for sharing!