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themangastand t1_j6i12cf wrote

Reply to comment by PorkyPigDid911 in Scientists lower price of lithium's best competition - flow batteries - by 20%. Makes the battery effectively equal to or cheaper than lithium ion when spread over 30 years (flow battery lifetimes are effectively infinite with light repowering efforts). by PorkyPigDid911

Lithium is great. But not good for longetivity. We won't last longer then a century with known reserves and that's if we start recycling. Sodium is where it's at. And using lithium only for when it's super needed is probably where the future will be

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PorkyPigDid911 OP t1_j6idl5q wrote

> We won't last longer then a century with known reserves

"known reserves"

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themangastand t1_j6it493 wrote

Even then not much longer in the context of how long we will last. Sodium is definitely needs to be the future of mainline batteries.

Unknown reserves won't be infinite. And definitely not even close to sodium.

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Cult_of_Chad t1_j6izmes wrote

If we're not asteroid mining by the end of the century something went terribly wrong.

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themangastand t1_j6j70ve wrote

nothing is wrong with sodium batteries either, sodium batteries in research are already getting close to current lithium and have the potential to even surpass it by 20-30% with new methods.

However they will always get destroyed by the new techologies of lithium such as solid state lithium. However there is many advantages to sodium over lithium. Such as they work far better in cold tempertures and they, far far cheaper, and degrade far slower then lithium batteries.

It makes sense once these sodium batteries come up in the next decade to replace them in our phone, bikes, affordable cars(high end cars can use lithium solid state), and all other smaller electronic devices that we use lithium currently for.

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