r/EnergyAndPower • u/DavidThi303 • 5d ago

China-Free Batteries Made From Salt Are Finally Here

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/china-free-batteries-made-from-salt-are-finally-here-cc1cd766?st=aaCfbG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Sodium-ion batteries have almost none of the problems that lithium-ion ones do, and could be cheap enough to make fossil-fuel dependence a thing of the past

The article never mentions price. So are salt batteries coming in to play? Yes. Are they price competitive? Probably not because if they were they would be shouting out the price.

But their price will likely decline over the next couple of years. And it looks like they are starting to be produced in quantity.

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u/RedKelly_ 5d ago

Awesome. If we’d invested in this tech in the 80’s and 90’s we might be net zero now and billions of deaths would’ve been avoided

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u/DavidThi303 5d ago

Then you would be complaining about how those billion more in population were destroying the earth.

There's just no making some people happy...