Re:Solid-State Battery Has 2x the Energy–and No Anode
by tasty_freeze on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:31AM
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Your logic makes sense if there is only one battery factory. But there are and will be many.
Re:Solid-State Battery Has 2x the Energy–and No Anode
by Retric on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:37AM
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Economies of scale still apply with multiple factories because you need someone to design and build the equipment used at each of them.
Re:Solid-State Battery Has 2x the Energy–and No Anode
by worik on Friday March 31, 2023 @07:18PM
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Where do flow batteries (fuel cells) fit in those calculations?
Re:Solid-State Battery Has 2x the Energy–and No Anode
by uoaei on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:17PM
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Some of the more exotic battery designs are things like "rust powder held in a silo at a certain temperature" which presumably can be assembled on-site. It seems to me overly reductive to assume that stationary batteries will be "just mobile batteries but heavier".
On the one hand, you're right that for different applications having different metrics can be acceptable. Sure, a battery for your home that never moves can be heavy and large and that's okay.
But then you have to consider the economics of production. How many of those batteries will you make? What will the factory for them cost to build? And what would it cost instead to just make a bunch more Li-Ion batteries at the existing factory instead?