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Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery (electrek.co)
submitted 18 hours ago by Gsus4@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Can we make them from desalination plants, in part? Or no? I don't know the science for it.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 19 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the brine is where various useful ions can be further extracted from. https://news.mit.edu/2019/brine-desalianation-waste-sodium-hydroxide-0213

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

It's both amazing and hilarious that our battery production is similar to modded Minecraft logic.