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This company has only been able to develop sodium ion for quick emergency back up for your computer. Hopefully they’ve made the necessary progress from there.

The world would be a much healthier place without intellectual property rights. Life is not only a competition. The west gave a bad example of how bad greed can get and how harmful to others and our planet too.

I love the way solutions are always just over the horizon, when you've just bought the last solution which turned out to be not the solution.

The best solution ive seen is a mountain slope with a long rail line. Basically the cars are hooked up to a special track that delivers the electricity similar to a subway car. The wheels have electric generators on them and a huge amount of weight with rocks. During peak energy they push the cars to the top of the mountain where the cars sit. Then at night they slowly roll down hill delivering something like 95% efficiency. Now the nice part about this is that hydro power has the risk of evaoprating meaning anything over a 5% evaporation means its not as efficient. Its also instantly available and can meet the exact energy needs. I also believe that eventually you could have a sytem which allows for energy to be harvested by moving large amounts or rock to the bottom of the track. Basically you could find an ideal location with a huge amount of loose rock which would allow this to be harvested for electric power. Giving the potential to make electricity simply by moving a massive amount of weight onto these rail cars and letting them roll down the hill and then be emptied into a quarry or canyon. Theoretically you could be generating electricity on demand simply by having mining equipment move rocks onto rail cars and letting their weight rolling fown hill produce electricity. I think it offers a great opportunity for old mines to be filled as a way to produce more revenue and be an environmentally friendly way to produce electricity. Its also fascinating to think of electric powered machinery that would make the entire system carbon neutral. There are mines all across the country that have been abandoned. And have massive amounts of removed material sititng outside of them. The potential to use those old rails to produce electricity by refilling the mines is like a second gold rush.

He had me in the first half, but when he started talking about Peltphorum I got dubious...

The UK is going to need all of it in a variable mix. It also has to be as local as possible.

Quite exciting news! Thanks for breaking it down in layman's terms. I kinda-sorta understand the conceptes now, lol. I love the idea of fast charging batteries that don't degrade.

Sodium is definitely the way to go for gridscale and domestic storage, or will be when the price comes down. You cab get Lion cells in low numbers for £0.11 per w/h of storage. Sodium should come in at half that. So 30kWh of domestic storage would have about £1800 in cells in it. It's about £800 for the casing and electronics so £5200 with Vat and markup. Worth having at that cost.

So won't change the car industry much.

They can't monopolize it but can you mass produce it to beat them? CATL already has the sodium-ion battery in production. Where's the US/Europe at?

Great video <3 Thanks once again!

Friends in the east is questionable comment if not robust sarcasm. Red flag dictatorships are not friends in any situation.

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Tell this to the PM who is signing of licenses for new oil and gas fields like no tomorrow 😡😡😡

Just an observation from someone who once worked in the chemical industry: if the battery catches fire, Prussian blue may decompose and emit cyanide fumes. Not nice. We used hydrogen cyanide in the manufacture of Prussian blue, you see.

Isn't Natron, Baking Soda?

Great vid! I've been keeping up with Natron for the past 8-9 mths. Fascinating company!!

What they're not telling us is the Sodium -ion battery also uses Cobalt in the anode. So there's no respite for Congo at the moment.

Sodium ion batteries were hurriedly adopted by China to counter the Indian duo businessmen Ambani -Adani's firm, from starting a massive lithium mining project in the Ladakh region of India. China is interested in that piece of land and doesn't want Indian interference. The Lithium market has artificially crashed and the Ambani -Adani duo have suspended their mining plans. Meanwhile the Indian government is reluctant to grant statehood to Ladakh because the federal government will lose stake on mining rights. Ladakh is in a political limbo. Ladakhs prominent activist Soman Wangchuk, gave up his fast for statehood because the federal government refused to acknowledge his pleas.

You can power batteries with salt water…. Just adding salt water to a battery made out of two types of metal causes electric currents!

China will just steal this tech, too.

Sodium-ion would be great for energy storage at home - none (or far less of) of the ignition problems that lithium-ion has, and hopefully far less hazardous off-gassing and smoke in the event of fire. As for EV vehicles... You seriously need an upgraded energy supply. The current grids are not up to snuff. If they were, even the limited amount of charging stations would all be charging at full speed instead of so many times charging at lower voltages/amperages/whatever.

we will know if it is worth the hype if and when it hits the market.

As someone who has worked on farms, farming probably won't go away, but it is likely best relegated to predominantly fruits, vegetables, dairy, and certain specific derivatives thereof while using regenerative, organic methods. Other methods tend to be really low margin and profitability is inconsistent. So this is a reasonable development.

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When American products have an advantage, the United States dumps all industrial and agricultural products to the world When the United States does not have an advantage, the United States prohibits other countries from exporting products to it

Sodium Ion is the future

With all respect ...it is very hard to convince that EV BATTERY WILL WORK ....AFTER THE TRAGIC RESULTS OF THOUSANDS BLOWING UP .... PLUS DAMAGE COSTS AND HUMAN LIFE LOST MAYBE ÎN 200 YEARS .... WILL REESTABLISH THE CREDIT OF EV BATTERY WITH ALL RESPECT FOR TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE

Molten fusible salt reactors been around for 75 years,Drop a pure sodium crystal in water,It explodes.

Supposedly, sodium ion batteries don't require rare earth minerals for the electrolyte. Thus further eroding China's monopoly on that supply. That's reason enough to develop this technology.

This, with modern nuclear power, could actually make electric vehicles viable.

What are these supposed grid scale batteries to support variable RE? I'm not aware of any. RE only works (in most places with access to good hydro) because of the pre-existing nuke and fossil fuel.

La Niña typically brings colder winters to Europe, but the effects can vary by location. La Nina is on its way back. One of the big contributors to the record-breaking global temperatures over the past year - El Nino - is nearly gone, and its opposite, La Nina, is on the way.

When CHEVRON is mentioned I get a bitter taste in my mouth. They were a side company who destroyed the GMC electric car in the early 2000s. I bet this technology will be kabashed by the powers that bee. Great video Sir. I like your consensus information on the battery manufacturing fields. Peace v

Love the cycle life chart, where EDLC is 1M but is truncated to make NATRON 50k look good. WOW that a messed up chart.

so Us copy chinese tech now?

Without China producing them, they will never be affordable.

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Lol, if you really believe Chinese made ev's ate high quality, then I invite you to sspend some time over at China Insider channel.

🤣🤣🤣 sodium-ion technology has been around for over 20 years-!! and NOT owned by the USA 👎

Thanks!

Well let's not forget the Aquion battery which was a sodium battery that got popular years ago. There are a good number of homeowners in America that have been screwed. They purchased that battery thinking it was safe and environmentally sound and it has failed and the company went out of business. I worked for an inverter manufacturer and we found that the sodium battery did not deliver current fast enough to handle large inductive loads. If a pump or air conditioner came on The voltage would collapse and the inverter would shut down on low voltage and then a moment later everything would come back up and run again. Hundreds if not thousands of homeowners are still furious to this day because the company did not honor any solutions to the problem. I am hopeful that the technology has improved and that the internal resistance problem of the battery has been resolved.

USA beating China 🇨🇳 ? LOL .

Do you know how much sodium cost in China compared to US? 😂

Na-ion battery has very low energy density.

How about photonic, laser, and/or quantum batteries?

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Sodium ion would be great for ship, weight is much less of a concern and also the fact that it is safe and much cheaper

Great to hear Na-ion batteries are getting wider use! I dont suppose I'll be able to replace my sealed lead acid UPSes with Na-ion, but who knows?

Another excellent video! In contrast to our paranoid squabbling old men leadership in USA, I think China just wants equal status as a great power, so they can deal on an equal footing. They are the businesspeople of E Asia, and good at it. Once their old men stop squabbling with old US and European men, the world will be better off!