They are a lot more expensive than expected at the moment, once they start selling at the 30$/KWh they were proposed at they will be fantastic but if they stay at their current price LFP is going to be a lot cheaper.
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mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 months agoI’m excited about salt batteries taking up the slack on a lot of this infrastructure in the future.
BrightCandle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep your not wrong. In my local area, they are starting to use them for the grid. I know one of the engineers over at a local makerspace. The process is getting refined ATM. Its cool this and concrete power cells are becoming a thing.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Iron rust batteries are also pretty intersting. Just iron and water to store power by exploiting how rust forms.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
anything that’s outside of rare metals batt technology either lithium or sodium based right now is basically off of the table, except for silver zinc iirc, and nickel hydrogen. Those are like the two options that are probably viable, everything else simply doesn’t exist yet.
Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I’d just like to note that a lot of storage technologies that are currently in the pilot project stage are based on using components with existing supply lines to minimize the time and effort needed to scale up production.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
to be specific, most of the shit like aluminum air batteries are still in the heavy research stages of production, we haven’t even gotten them remotely close to lithium tech, such that lithium tech is still king.
Give it a decade and there will likely be more than a few types of batts kicking around though.
It’s not about production scaling, that’s the easy part, you just make and sell more product, we’ve been doing that since the 1800s. The hard part is making it market viable. Or even exist at all in the first place.