SeaJ@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoUS grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square121fedilinkarrow-up1608arrow-down111
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minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·4 months agoyeah this is fine, but these need to run at high temperatures last time i’ve checked. that makes it a bit more complicated to use
minus-squareProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-24 months agoSodium electric batteries, like the type that CATL developed? Or do you mean hot molten salt thermal batteries? Because I think the other poster is referring to the first kind.
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-24 months agoi thought sodium batteries need low hundreds C for ceramic electrolyte to work. i stand corrected e: CATL made sodium-ion battery, i was thinking of sodium-sulfur battery
yeah this is fine, but these need to run at high temperatures last time i’ve checked. that makes it a bit more complicated to use
Sodium electric batteries, like the type that CATL developed? Or do you mean hot molten salt thermal batteries? Because I think the other poster is referring to the first kind.
i thought sodium batteries need low hundreds C for ceramic electrolyte to work. i stand corrected
e: CATL made sodium-ion battery, i was thinking of sodium-sulfur battery