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Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage

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Re: Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage

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https://peakenergy.com/ They might be a bit bigger than you want for home.

There is no buy button on that website.

There is also no Buy button for a Tesla Megapack on a consumer website, yet they are still being deployed.

Re: Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage

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"There's no reason" just "make it safe and cheap in huge size". Kind of like there's no reason we can't go to Mars for tourism. Just make it as convenient, safe, and cheap as a jet to London.

I failed to land my point, it’s that instead of chasing small and complex battery systems to put in cars, lower tech, bigger, less convenient battery tech of the pool-under-house scale, could be an incredible option. Stationary batteries don’t have the same constraints as the portable batteries we are familiar with from even before the lithium ion age.

This sounds like grid storage, which is actively being deployed to even out supply from renewables.
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