New sodium-ion battery skips mechanical cooling with 97.9% efficiency
I’ve been hearing about these for a few years now. Huge if they work out at a large scale.
interestingengineering.com/energy/unigrid-sodium-ion-battery-tech
Interesting EngineeringNew sodium-ion battery skips mechanical cooling with 97.9% efficiencySyntropic Power and UNIGRID have entered a partnership to commercialize UNIGRID’s sodium chromium oxide battery chemistry in North America.Replying to @Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world
Is this the next big thing? Na. /j
Replying to @raman_klogius@ani.social
Sodium-Ion is already in production at CATL. Been for about half a year if I recall. It’s slightly less dense than LFP but it’s cheaper and promises to get cheaper yet.
Replying to @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca
The advantage of Sodium -Ion is that it’s cheap, abundant, safe, and can cycle. It’s mainly used where large capacities are needed. So industrial, grid scale, stationary types of storage.
Replying to @cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works
Sodium carbonate is less common than lithium carbonate, but requires less processing