Right up there with “cause/cure for dementia found”
Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater
Reygle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Every week with the “miracle battery!” headlines. This has been going on for ages and I’m sick of it.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reygle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Dyslexia for cure found!”
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We found the cure for Alzheimer’s but can’t remember what it was. I think it began with a “c”. Who are you?
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tuesday.
hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’s time for your nap, Mr President.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
350 page study concludes some people spend too much time reading.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
cure for dementia found"
The US government could use some of that these days.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Charged with fusion power! From space! Made from privately mined asteroids!
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And it’s got electrolytes!
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sodium-ion batteries are not hype though, they are in production use in multiple industries already. They are generally superior to Lithium based batteries in all regards, with the exception of having a bit lower energy density. An equivalent LiFePO4 battery might be 70-80% of the size for the same storage. It’s not a big deal for large applications like cars and solar storage.
J92@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, the advantages of all these sodium batteries, in my mind, is that they are stable and rugged enough to build up a backbone of a energy storage system for a grid. I’m seriously thinking about them for my house, in the UK.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, I am very intrigued. For something size of half a shipping container I could power my house for almost a month. This is of course fantasy because I don’t have $20,000 to throw down. But combine it with solar cells that have gotten really cheap you could indefinitely power you house for next to nothing.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Also not nearly as much of a fire hazard.
Reygle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cool.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
If they have a bit lower energy density than Lithium batteries, then where does the claim that they store twice the energy come from?
Canconda@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Twice the energy than the previous sodium battery tech. Nowhere does it say its twice as good as Li-ion. That’s an assumption you made.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sounds like it came from that article about the new kind of sodium batteries with vanadium that are doing that desalination business. I was describing the general technology rather than that specific new one in the article.