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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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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.