Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoMy very uneducated understanding is that sodium batteries can be produced virtually anywhere.
Not every battery application needs to maximize energy density, so sodium batteries are good where that is the case.
I also did not read about sodium ion batteries characteristics versus lithium ion, so there might also be other use cases where sodium ion batteries are better.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
No thermal runaway if I remember correct as those are not prone to exploding (unlike li-ion)
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Well it’s a pretty big deal, especially for large power storage.