Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5922898
Original link: https://northvolt.com/articles/northvolt-sodium-ion
- 🦘min0nim🦘 ( @min0nim@aussie.zone ) English46•7 months ago
Great 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•7 months ago
Sodium 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•7 months ago
It’s always great when not depending by other countries I guess, specially when they are bloody dictatorships
- Sonori ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) 17•7 months ago
Now 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•7 months ago
We have the raw materials in Australia but not the capability to process them.
- Sonori ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) 1•7 months ago
Nothing stopping you from investing in moving up the value chain except a lack of government interest in doing so.
- petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 2•7 months 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•7 months ago
True, but the largest suppliers are democratic countries, and scale does matter in this type of conversation.
- 0x4E4F ( @0x4E4F@infosec.pub ) English3•7 months ago
…and is produced with minerals such as iron and sodium …
Iron is a mineral 🤨?
- Alto ( @Alto@kbin.social ) 8•7 months ago
IIRC even ice is technically a mineral
- jonsnothere ( @jonsnothere@beehaw.org ) 3•7 months ago
Which makes water lava, technically speaking
- 0x4E4F ( @0x4E4F@infosec.pub ) English2•7 months ago
Wow 🤣… you guys are fun 🤣.
- 0x4E4F ( @0x4E4F@infosec.pub ) English2•7 months ago
Wow, you learn something new every day 👍.
- heluecht ( @heluecht@pirati.ca ) 6•7 months ago
- petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 3•7 months ago
- 0x4E4F ( @0x4E4F@infosec.pub ) English3•7 months ago
I’m an engineer and I still don’t understand chemical equations 🤣.
- petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 3•7 months ago
@0x4E4F that’s a bit more reassuring I guess 😂
- 0x4E4F ( @0x4E4F@infosec.pub ) English2•7 months ago
WTF 🤣🤣🤣, seriously 🤣?
- heluecht ( @heluecht@pirati.ca ) 5•7 months ago
@0x4E4F Yeah, see the Wikipedia article about “Metallicity”.
- abhibeckert ( @abhibeckert@beehaw.org ) 6•7 months ago
Go 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•7 months ago
So, minerals are then divided in subcategories, like metals, right?