6 comments

  • EwanToo 2 minutes ago
  • syntaxing 34 minutes ago
    I’m so desperate for home battery using sodium batteries. Safer and lower temperature it can operate at. Low energy density but I don’t care for home battery.
    • maxnevermind 14 minutes ago
      I thought the main advantage in comparison with LFP is the lower price(long term) and better sub-zero performance?
      • syntaxing 2 minutes ago
        Nope. Almost all batteries I see for LFP have heaters for them at too low temps (around freezing 0C/32F). Where as sodium ion can discharge at -25C
    • margalabargala 29 minutes ago
      There is an aqueous variant of sodium ion batteries that are safer than lithium, but most sodium ion batteries are NOT that variant and are more dangerous than LiFePO4.
      • syntaxing 3 minutes ago
        Wait what? All data I see about sodium ion is safer than LiFePO. I’m by no means an expert and would love to see why it’s the other way around
    • toomuchtodo 28 minutes ago
      Are you in the US?
  • KellyCriterion 12 minutes ago
    Just imagine:

    ALL the money that flew into "Fossil & Co" throughout the last, lets say, 50 or 60 years, including all implicit fundings, like state-building-streets or universities-masters-engineering-focus-ICE, all the money for lobbying, all the money for all the (counter)campaigns (from ALL sides), and all that money....

    ...WHAT IF we would have spent all of this money instead on Battery Research and all this Renewable Energy stuff?

    Where would we be today on techdev curve? ;-) ;-)

    • eugenekay 3 minutes ago
      We would probably be dramatically farther behind in the Materials Research conducted by the chemical companies underlying the fossil fuels industry, which has itself been necessary to the improvements in battery technologies. Polyimides don’t invent themselves!

      “What If?” history is fun, but there are always Tradeoffs.

  • allears 30 minutes ago
    "error establishing a database connection"
    • LeFantome 27 minutes ago
      Sodium powered data center
  • mateusfreira 13 minutes ago
    Every day, there's another news story about it... Just let me know when we can actually buy it. It's getting boring already.
  • alexfromapex 17 minutes ago
    • blendergeek 9 minutes ago
      Main site seems to be down. This archive link still works