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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by problems on Thursday March 02, 2017 @06:11PM (#13779222)
Storage of collected solar energy perhaps?
Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by mark-r on Thursday March 02, 2017 @06:26PM (#13779334)
That would depend mainly on price. I imagine at this early stage pricing would be entirely speculative, but new technologies don't usually start out cheaper than established ones.
Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by Tloewald on Thursday March 02, 2017 @07:00PM (#13779561)
If it's fundamentally sodium vs. lithium then it's going to have huge price advantages at scale.
Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by hwillis on Thursday March 02, 2017 @07:06PM (#13779599)
That's a matter of cost, not size. Mass is more important than volume for cost because transport depends on the weight primarily and because fundamentally more mass means more stuff. In the end you still have to pull x tonnes out of the ground.