Post #1745953
2026-04-14 17:13 UTC
This is still good and should be looked at seriously to recover the lithium already in circulation, but I can't help but feel like this is coming at the end of lithium as a battery material. Sodium batteries seem posed to supplant it in the near future.
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@AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2026-04-14 17:30
Sodium batteries aren't seriously expected by anyone to supplant Lithium ones. The two things Sodium can theoretically do better than Lithium are being cheaper as a raw material, and working well at low temperatures, but it's always going to be heavier and larger for a given capacity. Most applications for batteries care about their size and weight, and so the extra cost of Lithium will be worth paying.