Comment on First sodium battery urban e-bike offers 45-mile range and operates in cold weather without capacity loss

• Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Totally. But what if we left it where we found it?

  I get the economics of the situation (capitalism, etc) , I’m just saying…if there is salt already safely and naturally found underground, why not leave it there and use this byproduct salt that we don’t know what to do with?

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There are plenty of mining processes where salt is a by-product. That goes for desalination as well, of course. Salt for batteries will always be a tiny percentage of overall usage so this is not really a significant use case.

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• Suoko@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It sounds like the perfect match with solar panels

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  • sploosh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If only we could get photons to knock electrons off it.

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