Swedish company Northvolt develops new state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery produced with locally sourced materials, entirely independent of traditional battery value chains

0x4E4F, 7 months ago

…and is produced with minerals such as iron and sodium …

Iron is a mineral 🤨?

Alto, 7 months ago

IIRC even ice is technically a mineral

0x4E4F, 7 months ago

Wow, you learn something new every day 👍.

jonsnothere, 7 months ago

Which makes water lava, technically speaking

0x4E4F, 7 months ago

Wow 🤣… you guys are fun 🤣.

abhibeckert, 7 months ago

Go look up mineral in a dictionary… it literally means anything solid that’s not “organic”.

So yeah iron and sodium (salt) are absolutely minerals and so is ice.

0x4E4F, 7 months ago

So, minerals are then divided in subcategories, like metals, right?

min0nim, 7 months ago

Great and all, but this is a literal press release. It could be PR spruiking, it could be pump’n’dump play, it could be friggin genuinely great. No way to know from a press release.

tesseract, 7 months ago

Sodium ion batteries are already a thing. It’s coming for sure. Either this or some other company. But we need it.

petrescatraian, 7 months ago

It's always great when not depending by other countries I guess, specially when they are bloody dictatorships

sonori, 7 months ago

Now i know Australia has been having some trouble with conservatives recently and is overrun with emus, but i’m not sure the entire country counts as a bloody dictatorship yet.

petrescatraian, 7 months ago

@sonori yea, not all suppliers of Lithium and other produce for modern batteries are bloody dictatorships. But sadly the whole world does not rely solely on them.

sonori, 7 months ago

True, but the largest suppliers are democratic countries, and scale does matter in this type of conversation.

abhibeckert, 7 months ago

We have the raw materials in Australia but not the capability to process them.

sonori, 7 months ago

Nothing stopping you from investing in moving up the value chain except a lack of government interest in doing so.