Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoDid you mean to tag me?
Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoDid you mean to tag me?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
You are a literal scientist or something that always answers these questions. We need you!
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Start of my villain arc right here. Like unidan, but with more buttholes.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Uh yeah, not a good idea now that I think about it, apologies.
But since you are already here, the guy above me says batteries have not improved much, and I’m too dumb to argue.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I won’t let it go to my head. I promise. Probably.
Anyways tho for an actual opinion:
This thread is a bit of a mess and I would caution taking anything being said (except by me, the absolute authority) without a large grain of salt - however mostly people aren’t contradicting each other, it’s just a hugely complex topic that quickly devolves into semantic-adjacent arguments about how we should be comparing battery chemistries (on market / in lab / cross-chemistry) and what degree we should be considering the “soft factors”; things like the number of recharge cycles, robustness of the cells to damage, cost of manufacturing and/or recycling the cells, etc.
Sodium batteries are a big deal, and as far as I’ve seen we’re finally at the point where they’re starting to become market viable, but they’re still a largely unproven technology. Arguing that battery tech hasn’t improved in the last decade is obviously wrong, but it’s also not wrong to say that there hasn’t been any dramatic improvement in the technology in the last decade. None of the many “miracle battery tech” that promises to have double-or-better the capacity of lithium chemistries has panned out, we’ve just been making slow gains across many chemistries and those cumulative 10% improvements to battery life year-over-year are finally starting to add up to where the average consumer can really notice them.