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Debunking The "Dirty" Solar Panels And Battery Myth
(cleantechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Mining/extraction of lithium is extremely destructive to the environment. This article gives a general overview of our predicament with having such a strong dependency on lithium for batteries: https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2023/01/18/the-paradox-of-lithium/
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2021/06/09/stop-calling-green-energy-clean/ goes into more depth with how much pollution mining/extracting lithium generates.
I don't see it discussed nearly enough that finding an alternative to lithium should be among the top priorities in research.
Sodium-ion are being applied in real world use cases.
Advice to be skeptic about this guy. He has been caught multiple times with misinformation spreading, poorly done research, and corporate propaganda.
I was tracking that sodium-ion was only viable for larger applications (e.g. building backup, possibly EVs the size of buses), is that no longer the case?
Yes, cars.
Oh wow, that's some good news! Hopefully it hits the US and EU markets soon.
And screw guns