• @Eheran@lemmy.world
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    1210 months ago

    What an odd headline. Was that mine lost and they stumbled upon it again? Or did they discover new deposits?

      • MentalEdge
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        2010 months ago

        A “mine” would suggest there is already infrastructure.

        If you just found some new place with a ton of lithium, it’s not a mine until you actually build all the stuff around it to get it out of the ground.

        You can’t “find” a mine, unless you already built one, and then forgot it existed.

  • @naturalgasbad@lemmy.caOP
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    310 months ago

    What are the odds China actually extracts from it? Seems like lithium batteries are soon going to become a dead tech with the rise of sodium-ion batteries.

    • @ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com
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      1210 months ago

      Lithium is still going to be king in small batteries, i.e. for appliances, laptops, phones, toys etc and those uses are only growing and won’t be replaced by Sodium-Ion unless we see even more breakthroughs there and none in Lithium-Ion.

    • @CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
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      510 months ago

      Sodium ion sounds like a very promising battery tech for a lot of things due to sodium’s abundance and ease of access, but it’s less energy dense than lithium so I still see lithium battery tech being king in most applications where battery size and weight matter - portable electronics and EVs mostly. Sodium ion tech sounds best suited for grid-scale energy storage, home backup/solar batteries, and other such applications where cost is more important than size or weight.

    • @T4V0@lemmy.pt
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      Seems like lithium batteries are soon going to become a dead tech with the rise of sodium-ion batteries.

      They are? As I understand it, sodium-ion batteries have lower energy density and smaller lifespan. They will probably fully replace lead-acid batteries and will be used as substitute for lithium batteries in vehicles and others similar scenarios due to their hazardous nature.