SeaJ@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoUS grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square118fedilinkarrow-up1601arrow-down110
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minus-squareCheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 months agoSodium batteries are already being produced (only in one factory in the US and one in China so far but its a start to commercial production), there’s enough of that stuff to build batteries for the entire planet a thousand times over.
minus-squareguacupado@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoDidn’t realize we had sodium batteries being made in the US on a commercial scale. For anyone else that was curious: Natron Energy.
Sodium batteries are already being produced (only in one factory in the US and one in China so far but its a start to commercial production), there’s enough of that stuff to build batteries for the entire planet a thousand times over.
Didn’t realize we had sodium batteries being made in the US on a commercial scale.
For anyone else that was curious: Natron Energy.