Doesnt matter if the capacity is even less than sodium batteries.
We'll see.
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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Every week with the "miracle battery!" headlines. This has been going on for ages and I'm sick of it.
Right up there with "cause/cure for dementia found"
"Dyslexia for cure found!"
We found the cure for Alzheimer's but can't remember what it was. I think it began with a "c". Who are you?
Charged with fusion power! From space! Made from privately mined asteroids!
We are close to finding out why some liquids are blue.
The Institute of Sciencey Things
What is the catch?
What do they do with the Chlorine though?
They run a pool service
Clean chickens.
Sodium Ion already does 5000+ cycles. Adding Vanadium is not a scalable material. It is very expensive. 400 cycles steady is not useful information because it needs to do much more. They didn't state a wh/kg density. This is probably not a viable research vector, but "big Vanadium" has proposed a rental model to make Vanadium more scarce for other applications. Flow batteries (a fuel cell with tanks of electrolytes) provides an ultra easy way of recycling/selling the vanadium for traditional uses. Battery rental that forces returning it could be viable.
Right up there with the batteries that would contain about 1 kg of silver in them. Even if they didn't become insanely expensive you'd have tweakers foaming at the mouth to steal your batteries.
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