Comment on The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January

• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hope not, because salt isn’t a renewable resource. And who the hell wants to fight the auto industry for something we need for food?

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  • Nima@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sodium isn’t rare in the slightest. according to Wikipedia, “Sodium is the sixth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust and exists in numerous minerals such as feldspars, sodalite, and halite (NaCl).”

    salt isn’t going anywhere. no need to fret.

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    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We had a shortage in Canada… but after looking into it, it appears to have been caused by a labour strike. LOL

      Yes, it’s abundant. But it is still a finite resource that needs to be mined/harvested, and what will that look like when the EVs are running off sodium-ion batteries?

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      • greenmarty@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Bit better then when we mined coal or lithium since it’s so abundant we don’t have to fck up whole regions for it to get to the little bit here and there. Desalination makes sense, dried death salt lakes also seems logical etc. Salt is everywhere. People are even building artificial “caves” with salt for others to go breath salty air inside.

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      • TheHotze@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        A lot of desalinization plants just release the salty brine back out to sea, it’s actually an ecological problem, so finding another use for it might convince them to capture and separate that for manufacturing uses.

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      • theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We had a shortage in Canada… but after looking into it, it appears to have been caused by a labour strike. LOL

        That’s a capitalism problem, not a resource problem. All resources require labor to harvest, renewable or no.

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bro we will need to do desalination plants to supply people with water, there will be more than enough salt and you can’t dump the salt back into the ocean anyway

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  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The ocean could uhhhh use some less salt.

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    • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fresh take.

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      • talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No. Salt take, make fresh. 😁

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  • suodrazah@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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  • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    this is plain stupid. sodium is far far more common in the earth than lithium. if you’re worried about sodium not being renewable, then by that logic you should stop using lithium batteries right now.

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    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, I understand. I already posted that I was under the impression that we have shortages of the stuff, since we had shortages in Canada. But it was due to a labour dispute, and not a lack of resources.

      And yes, I think we should reduce our use of lithium batteries, or at least only use recycled lithium.

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  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Way too much salt to care there.

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• TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nope. Mining. Soda ash (sodium carbonate) is one of the best raw materials for these

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