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RE: https://social.coop/@MichaelTBacon/116906747323437247
(very) Good News in Hard Times.
Batteries taking great leaps in power, storage, price are happening almost too fast to list.
And safety.
And common materials.
Price per megawatt is falling like a rock.
And its common sodium batteries! Salt, its available everywhere, no Hormuz in sight. Every land. And its safe, a huge improvement on lithium fire risks.
Real human advance
Common sand for solar, salt for batteries, found everywhere, cheap.
Salt and Sand. <- the future.
#Climate #al #salt
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RE: https://social.coop/@ZaneSelvans/116905949173214025
Fantastic. I've been watching sodium ion batteries for the past couple of years as an essential step forward in battery storage.
Lithium is terrific for small batteries but rare and damaging to mine, so getting enough for grid-scale batteries was always problematic. Sodium, to put it mildly, is neither.
Portable electronics batteries and probably car batteries will continue to be lithium for the foreseeable future but it's a huge step forward to have grid scale electricity in volume using sodium.
Open quoted postBeen to the plot earlier, too hot to do anything other than water the crops and sit under the plum tree. Stuff is growing OK: broad beans already harvested and donated to the food bank, strawberries well gone down my gullet - had a week of top posh breakfast, strawbs in buffalo milk yogurt....
Onions arising, tomatoes flowering, pinto beans trying the escape the greenhouse through gaps in the roof, carrots also coming up nicely though last year's have flowered so let them be for insects.
Grapes and olives also showing up nicely, dunno if the olives will ripen, grapes yes, they will, not enough to make wine but am sure I'll have some decent breakfast, sometime in October.
Am preparing some home made pesto using basil and garlic from the plot, olive oil, a quarter bag of almonds, pinch of salt, splash of chili sauce, no cheese.
#allotment #gardening #garlic #basil #oliveoil #salt #chili #onions #tomatoes #smartphone #photography
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