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by jncfhnb 749 days ago
Kinda running in circles here man.

1) they are mass produced which was your original point of contention

2) they are growing very fast

3) 1:100 is pretty comparable. Utility storage batteries are only commercially feasible within the past several years. Sodium batteries aren’t a great choice for EVs so those numbers aren’t apples to apples as we’ve largely been talking about utility scale power.

4) the biggest reason sodium is not growing even faster is because lithium is better and cheaply available in large supplies.

And so we are here again. If you have x billion dollars, and you want to remove the most carbon; you would very likely remove more carbon, faster, by building a battery plant of either variety than building a nuclear plant.

The limiting factor of our clean power right now is in fact just hooking it up to the transmission grid tbh