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Kuyawa • today at 3:06 PM • 8 replies • view on HN

I wonder if we will run out of battery materials in a hundred years, then what?


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dv_dt • today at 3:25 PM

Are we burning the battery materials into gases and sending the results into the atmosphere? No, then we are unlikely to run out of materials on a primary or secondary, recycled, basis. Not to mention the diversity of choices available for chemistries and storage

jes5199 • today at 3:25 PM

we might end up switching to sodium batteries for the grid, they’re heavier so not great for cars, but otherwise they’re fine

mallets • today at 3:22 PM

Impossible as there are so many chemistries, but hopefully we don't run out of water for pumped hydro.

jooops1 • today at 3:32 PM

If we run out of Saltwater then we have very different problems at our hand.

henry2023 • today at 3:22 PM

1. Sodium batteries 2. Kinetic Batteries

bob1029 • today at 3:25 PM

Global scale HVDC networks could eliminate a significant part of the storage requirement.

jeffbee • today at 4:57 PM

It is far more likely to run out of practical fissile materials than it would be to run out of electrochemical materials.

tcfhgj • today at 3:11 PM

green gas or flow batteries