Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5922898
Original link: https://northvolt.com/articles/northvolt-sodium-ion
🦘min0nim🦘 ( @min0nim@aussie.zone ) English46•1 year agoGreat and all, but this is a literal press release. It could be PR spruiking, it could be pump’n’dump play, it could be friggin genuinely great. No way to know from a press release.
4dpuzzle ( @tesseract@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year agoSodium ion batteries are already a thing. It’s coming for sure. Either this or some other company. But we need it.
petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 10•1 year agoIt’s always great when not depending by other countries I guess, specially when they are bloody dictatorships
Sonori ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) 17•1 year agoNow i know Australia has been having some trouble with conservatives recently and is overrun with emus, but i’m not sure the entire country counts as a bloody dictatorship yet.
abhibeckert ( @abhibeckert@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year agoWe have the raw materials in Australia but not the capability to process them.
Sonori ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year agoNothing stopping you from investing in moving up the value chain except a lack of government interest in doing so.
petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 2•1 year ago@sonori yea, not all suppliers of Lithium and other produce for modern batteries are bloody dictatorships. But sadly the whole world does not rely solely on them.
Sonori ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year agoTrue, but the largest suppliers are democratic countries, and scale does matter in this type of conversation.
0x4E4F ( @0x4E4F@infosec.pub ) English3•1 year ago…and is produced with minerals such as iron and sodium …
Iron is a mineral 🤨?
Alto ( @Alto@kbin.social ) 8•1 year agoIIRC even ice is technically a mineral
jonsnothere ( @jonsnothere@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year agoWhich makes water lava, technically speaking
0x4E4F ( @0x4E4F@infosec.pub ) English2•1 year agoWow 🤣… you guys are fun 🤣.
0x4E4F ( @0x4E4F@infosec.pub ) English2•1 year agoWow, you learn something new every day 👍.
abhibeckert ( @abhibeckert@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year agoGo look up mineral in a dictionary… it literally means anything solid that’s not “organic”.
So yeah iron and sodium (salt) are absolutely minerals and so is ice.
0x4E4F ( @0x4E4F@infosec.pub ) English2•1 year agoSo, minerals are then divided in subcategories, like metals, right?