• mesamune@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’m excited about salt batteries taking up the slack on a lot of this infrastructure in the future.

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        anything that’s outside of rare metals batt technology either lithium or sodium based right now is basically off of the table, except for silver zinc iirc, and nickel hydrogen. Those are like the two options that are probably viable, everything else simply doesn’t exist yet.

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          3 months ago

          I’d just like to note that a lot of storage technologies that are currently in the pilot project stage are based on using components with existing supply lines to minimize the time and effort needed to scale up production.

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      3 months ago

      They are a lot more expensive than expected at the moment, once they start selling at the 30$/KWh they were proposed at they will be fantastic but if they stay at their current price LFP is going to be a lot cheaper.

      • mesamune@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Yep your not wrong. In my local area, they are starting to use them for the grid. I know one of the engineers over at a local makerspace. The process is getting refined ATM. Its cool this and concrete power cells are becoming a thing.