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Re:Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US p... by adverbly on Friday May 03, 2024 @03:42PM (#40251514)
Those would need to get cycled a lot(many times per day). You might want one for your house if you wanted to charge quickly at home, but for charging stations, I think more realistically they'd have 10x less charging spots if each person was only there 1/10th the time.

So the peak would be the same, but if there were too many customers then sort of like at a busy gas station people would be waiting for a spot rather than waiting for charging to complete.

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Re:Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US p... by happyopossum on Friday May 03, 2024 @05:04PM (#40252375)
> Those would need to get cycled a lot(many times per day).

Fortunately these batteries have "an estimated lifespan of 50,000 cycles". Also, since there aren't super-dangerous elements in them, they should be much easier and cleaner to recycle/renew - especially with the giant recharge-station-scale ones' we're talking about, which could be designed specifically for that.

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