If you liked Lithium Battery fires, you’ll love Sodium Battery fires.
Is it practical for EV batteries? I was wondering about it’s power output potential as compared to Lithium.
“can be procured through a reliable US-based domestic supply chain free from geopolitical disruption.”
Can’t have that. The regime will shut it down in a heartbeat.
Less range and lots more charging ? That will PO people
What kind of energy in-put is required to break up the Sodium Chloride molecule?
Has anyone here seen photos of lithium leaching ponds?
Completely hideous from an environmental point of view.
There are dozens of greenish yellow ponds that can take up hundreds of acres.
It must cost tens of millions of dollars to rehabilitate the land after the lithium has been extracted.
I searched the source article for the term “fire resistant” and came up bupkis. Nor did the term ‘aqueous’ turn up.
So, either the author is a lazy dolt, or the batteries cited in the article are NOT ‘fire resistant’ nor ‘aqueous’. Technically, sodium-ion batteries could be more hazardous than lithium (that’s science, folks). They only cite “safer, nonflammable end use” with no validation of the claim whatsoever.
and re aqueous sodium-ion batteries (from January 2024)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44855-6
Since the both the source and the manufacturers Natron fail to cite any science whatsoever in their ‘news’ releases to validate the level of development of their battery...
...color me hugely skeptical.