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by JumpCrisscross 1268 days ago
> lithium ion is up to 265 Wh/kg and sodium ion has 160 Wh/kg

This is what less dense means.

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sure. but it seems one third of the range seems too pessimistic according to those numbers.
Sodium is about half the range with the older unimproved designs (new experimental ones are closer to parity with li-ion), it's better than the density number suggests because it's lower internal resistance - less steep discharge curve than li-ion.