Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost

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• BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good lord that is a horrendous website on mobile.

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  • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    for the first 2 seconds: that’s no bad… then all the pop ups came on

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    • agent_flounder@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you Firefox and pi-hole…

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    • zomtecos@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Had just 4 X-Buttons… could be worse. 🥸

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  • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s pretty fucking awful, even with ublock origin on Android. Found a better source:

    energy.gov/…/lpo-announces-conditional-commitment…

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    • serratur@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you disable javascript in ublock it is actually readable

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  • PeachMan@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    LOL I have Ublock Origin so I don’t see the pop-ups but the website just freezes after 3 seconds of scrolling, and I have to leave. They’ve really ruined their site. 😆

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  • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Meh it worked just fine for me in Firefox Android with UBlock Origin.

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  • ndr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have custom DNS filtering on my iPhone and the website looks perfectly fine. No ads or anything.

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    • PeachMan@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That doesn’t mean the website isn’t garbage. It’s good to call out trash sites like this so that people will stop going there.

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    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I just have Wipr (which is not a particularly good adblocker, it fails utterly at handling anti-adblocker sites), and it looks just fine on my phone too.

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• Ertebolle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  "Think again, Jimmy. You see the firing pin in your gun was made out of, yep, zinc."

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  • theDodosConundrum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Come back, zinc! Come back!”

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• Chickenstalker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No. Move to bio-based supercapacitors that uses biopolymers.

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  • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, move to naquadah reactors that use goa’uld metamaterials

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• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Eli5? Don’t zinc batteries suck compared to lithium?

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  • marsokod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It depends on what you value. For performance and power density, nothing really beats lithium at the moment.

    However, for grid-scale battery these parameters are not necessarily very important. What matters most is cost over the lifetime, and that’s wher zinc batteries could be useful. They have the potential to be much cheaper than the cheapest lithium batteries.

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  • Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They do. They are just looking for cheap way to store energy. They don’t care if battery are big, heavy and less efficient, they need something as cheap as possible for a range of use cases where cost is important.

    Lithium is expensive. My bet is that, on the long term, sodium will be used for such use cases. But in practice decision must account for practical limitations, primarily supply chain

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• Gto@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Looks promising, but not soon, I think.

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• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  electric car problem solved?

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Energy density on these are woefully inadequate for cars, but that doesn't matter for stationary storage which is what this is for.

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    • painfulasterisk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m more interested in how they will troubleshoot and perform preventative maintenance to the battery, since halides are quite toxic.

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