Green Energy

2331 readers

77 users here now

Everything about energy production and storage.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

107

First sodium battery urban e-bike offers 45-mile range and operates in cold weather without capacity loss (www.notebookcheck.net)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

17 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Totally. But what if we left it where we found it?

I get the economics of the situation (capitalism, etc) , I'm just saying...if there is salt already safely and naturally found underground or on a salt flat, why not leave it there and use this byproduct salt that we don't know what to do with?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

There are plenty of mining processes where salt is a by-product. That goes for desalination as well, of course. Salt for batteries will always be a tiny percentage of overall usage so this is not really a significant use case.