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First sodium battery urban e-bike offers 45-mile range and operates in cold weather without capacity loss
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Sodium is a resource of which there is absolutely no shortage. The stuff is pretty much everywhere.
It sounds like the perfect match with solar panels
If only we could get photons to knock electrons off it.
Totally. But what if we left it where we found it?
I get the economics of the situation (capitalism, etc) , I'm just saying...if there is salt already safely and naturally found underground or on a salt flat, why not leave it there and use this byproduct salt that we don't know what to do with?
There are plenty of mining processes where salt is a by-product. That goes for desalination as well, of course. Salt for batteries will always be a tiny percentage of overall usage so this is not really a significant use case.