• ShadowRam@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    but it’s not cheap

    what?

    The entire point is that this ‘almost’ competes with LFP but not as good,

    But the trade off is it’s suppose to be cheaper.

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      5 months ago

      The other real tradeoff is that it doesn’t rely on rare earth materials in order to function. Sodium is incredibly abundant and can easily be filtered out of seawater for all the world’s needs for the next thousand years.

      It’s also theoretically less toxic and less likely to explode, and even though for now it costs more than lithium, what with lithium having had 20-some odd years of development behind it, the price will come down because the raw materials to make it are abundant and cheap.