Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
voracread@lemmy.world 4 months agoI believe it is still better due to raw material availability?
Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
voracread@lemmy.world 4 months agoI believe it is still better due to raw material availability?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It is definitely that. That’s kind of the point, actually. Sodium is easier to come by than lithium and does not require mining it from unstable parts of the world, nor relying on China.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The appeal of China is largely in the size of the labor force. Whether this tech is more or less feasible than cobalt and lithium, businesses will still want to exploit the large volume of cheap Chinese labor in order to build them.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m sure they’ll want to, but that’ll be a little better than need to, i.e. relying on them for the raw materials as well.
Wooki@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you consider Australia unstable, sure, maybe for humans, the animals are fine unless you’re Steve Irwin, just dont go diving with stingrays