#sodiumion — Public Fediverse posts
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#America's First #SodiumIon #Battery Plant Comes to #Sacramento
#PeakEnergy has selected Sacramento, as home of America’s first manufacturing facility dedicated to #gridscale #sodiumionbattery systems. The 183,000sqft plant, representing a $71M investment, will produce up to 4GwH of storage annually when production begins in early 2027. Enough output each year to serve nearly four million homes, and it signals that sodium-ion tech has moved from lab to commercial reality.
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GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage
https://spectrum.ieee.org/sodium-ion-battery-peak-energy
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051947
#HackerNews #GM #SodiumIon #Batteries #GridStorage #RenewableEnergy #SustainableTech
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9 GWh #sodiumion battery agreement cuts #diesel use at remote mines
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/9-gwh-sodium-ion-mining-battery-deal
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So, Lithium ist dann jetzt auch nicht mehr das Problem.
Natrium haben wir genug. Im Meerwasser.
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Internal combustion vehicles are dead and #Solar/#Wind will beat fossil & nuclear.
#Sodiumion #batteries from #CATL start mass production in December.
Less than half the price than Lithium-ion. No fire risk. Up to 5x the charge cycles. Cold weather performance 90% at -40C. Energy density higher than LFP.
Grid energy storage will now win economically, and old batteries from #EVs driven half a million kms would make to sense to recycle into a new car.
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#GeneralMotors is expanding its #energystorage and #datacentre business by promoting #sodiumion #battery chemistry, which could lower costs and improve performance. The company is partnering with Peak Energy to develop these batteries, aiming for customer use after 2028. GM is also exploring vehicle-to-grid capabilities and partnerships with utility companies to help customers manage rising #energycosts. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/gm-batteries-data-centers-energy-storage-business.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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@paulschoe The #greenwashing ratio of #FossilFuels, investing 10% of their profits to keep #renewables complacent, relies on keeping investments in place to maximize their majority profits - fossil fuels.
Keeping lithium fulfilling most of the initial capital outlay, keeps investors/shareholders loyal, while feeding the fossil fuels upstream.
#SodiumIon #batteries have been viable for decades, given the removal of fossil fuels leaders. THIS is where we've failed miserably. #resist
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Could sodium replace lithium as the dominant ingredient in batteries?
#Tech #Batteries #EVs #BatteryTech #SodiumIon #WindEnergy #SolarEnergy #LithiumIon #CleanEnergy #EnergyStorage #EVBatteries #RenewableEnergy #ClimateTech #SodiumIonBatteries #Innovation
https://the-14.com/could-sodium-replace-lithium-as-the-dominant-ingredient-in-batteries/ -
@karabaic With the increasingly wild swings in climate, #desalination makes pragmatic sense. #SodiumIon #batteries are a byproduct of desalination plants that haven't been pursued, nearly enough. Even wave conversion to energy is in the mix with these plants, with other benefits to be added.
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CATL calls recently signed 60 GWh deal proof that it has “overcome the challenges of the entire sodium-ion battery mass production chain.” Industry observers are already calling it a potential “DeepSeek moment” for the global energy storage industry.
#EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition #Storage #SodiumIon #Climate
https://electrek.co/2026/04/27/catl-sodium-ion-battery-60gwh-energy-storage-deal/
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@yogthos Perhaps better applied to longer range, backup applications.
#SodiumIon #Batteries have far more overlapping value to equally critical infrastructure, with less invasive mineral mining than lithium, its current global competitor.
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https://hackaday.com/2026/04/27/why-solid-state-batteries-short/ supposedly solid state batteries aren't as safe and solid as claimed.
Dendritic growth and mechanical stress is worse due to the inflexible nature, causing these to short out while charging similar to older lithium batteries.
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@nickofnz How many of these minerals are becoming less necessary, with tech like #SodiumIon #Batteries going global, better cold weather performance and just as energy intensive as their competitors?
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#SodiumIon #batteries hit the Midwestern grid in first-of-its-kind pilot in Wisconsin
Simpler design could make a meaningful dent in the cost of storing #electricity
According to #PeakEnergy cuts lifetime cost of stored energy by an average of $70 per KWh. Half cost of #battery today. Achieves savings by removing energy-hungry cooling, eliminating routine maintenance requirements, and reducing need to overbuild storage capacity to account for battery degradation over time
https://electrek.co/2026/03/11/sodium-ion-batteries-hit-the-midwestern-grid-in-first-of-its-kind-pilot/ -
@primonatura Continued evolution of #SodiumIon #Batteries solves most of this.
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@urlyman Thorium Molten Salt Reactors, like China is having continued success with, provides high industrial level heat that's conducive to EV production. #TMSR also lends itself to #desalination, #SodiumIon batteries, #hydrogen and #ammonia production, medical isotopes, and even localized air conditioning because of high heat production in #MSR.
China's #BeltAndRoadInitiative is far more sustainable than most of the West's profit mongering.
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Sodium‑ion batteries offer a practical and sustainable route to large‑scale energy storage: lower material costs, improved safety, and strong potential for grid and stationary storage. Our latest blog outlines the technology, market prospects, and remaining technical hurdles. Dive deeper: https://wix.to/DuZqVXI
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#SodiumIonBatteries offer an alternative to tricky #lithium
Oct 26th 2023
Excerpt: "Fortunately, lithium is not the only game in town. As we report this week, a clutch of firms are making batteries based on sodium, lithium’s elemental cousin. Since sodium’s chemical properties are very similar to those of lithium, it too makes for good batteries. And sodium, which is found in the salt in #seawater, is thousands of times more abundant on Earth than lithium and cheaper to get at. Most of the companies using sodium to make batteries today are also Chinese. But pursuing the technology in the West might be a surer route to energy security than relying heavily on lithium.
"Besides its abundance, sodium has other advantages. The best lithium batteries use #cobalt and #nickel in their electrodes. Nickel, like lithium, is in short supply. #Mining it on land is #EnvironmentallyDestructive. Proposals to grab it from the #seabed instead have caused rows. A good deal of the world’s cobalt, meanwhile, is extracted from small mines in the #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo, where #ChildLabour is common and working conditions are dire. Sodium batteries, by contrast, can use #electrodes built from #iron and #manganese [and wood #lignin], which are plentiful and uncontroversial. Since the chemical components are cheap, a scaled-up industry should be able to produce batteries that cost less than their lithium counterparts.
"Sodium is not a perfect replacement for lithium. It is heavier, meaning sodium batteries will weigh more than lithium ones of an equivalent capacity. That is likely to rule them out in some cases where lightness is paramount. But for other applications, such as #GridStorage or #HomeBatteries, weight is irrelevant. Several Chinese carmakers are even beginning to put sodium batteries in #ElectricVehicles."
Read more:
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/10/26/sodium-batteries-offer-an-alternative-to-tricky-lithiumArchived version:
https://archive.ph/7x6JX#SolarPunkSunday #EnergyStorage #SodiumIon #NewTechnology #GiantLeap #Reuse #WasteReuse #NoLithiumMining #NoMining
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Fast-charging #SodiumIon battery uses anodes made from trees
By C.C. Weiss
June 09, 2024"A month after #NatronEnergy began its first-of-kind sodium-ion battery mass production, Swedish sodium-ion developer #Altris has identified a means of making the LithiumFree batteries even more sustainable. Together with partner #StoraEnso, it's adapting tree pulp-sourced carbon toward use as an anode material.
"A byproduct of wood pulp manufacturing, #lignin has long been investigated for possible use as a more sustainable electrode material. Finnish renewable materials company Stora Enso made headlines in 2022 when it partnered up with Swedish battery manufacturer #Northvolt toward using its proprietary #Lignode material in lithium-ion battery anodes. Stora Enso describes Lignode as a hard carbon material refined from lignin.
"By teaming with Altris, Stora Enso looks to go even more sustainable while further localizing the European battery supply chain. As we looked at when Natron Energy kicked off production a few weeks ago, sodium-ion batteries eliminate the need for rare minerals like lithium, cobalt and nickel, relying on abundant sodium that can be sourced locally without harmful #mining. "
Read more:
https://newatlas.com/energy/wood-based-sodium-ion-battery/#SolarPunkSunday #EnergyStorage #SodiumIonBatteries #NewTechnology #GiantLeap #Reuse #WasteReuse
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Sustainability-inspired cell design for a fully #recyclable #SodiumIon battery
Tiefeng Liu, Yaping Zhang, Chao Chen, Zhan Lin, Shanqing Zhang , Jun LuNature Communications, 2019 Apr 29
"Effective #recycling technologies represent a solution to the #sustainability and environmental consequences of spent #RechargeableBatteries . Here, the authors show a bipolar electrode design that allows not only good electrochemical performance but a closed loop of material use for sodium ion batteries."
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6488666/#SolarPunkSunday #Reuse #SodiumIonBatteries #NewTechnology
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New method converts old phones and paper industry #waste into #GreenBattery tech
Scientists have created a sustainable, cost-effective, and highly efficient solution that promotes a #CircularEconomy while supporting the transition to greener #EnergyStorage.
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Mrigakshi Dixit
Feb 20, 2026 06:59 AM EST"A new sustainable method turns discarded #MobilePhoneBatteries and industrial lignin into a powerhouse material for #SodiumIon batteries.
"It is a stunning example of circular economy innovation. Rather than letting these materials sit in #landfills or go up in smoke, the team from China is giving the waste a high-tech second life.
"When tested as a sodium-ion battery anode, this composite of #nickel-#cobalt sulfides and #lignin-derived carbon delivered electrochemical results."
Read more:
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/battery-material-from-old-phone-batteries#SolarPunkSunday #CellPhoneBatteries #Reuse #SodiumIonBatteries #NewTechnology #GiantLeap #EWaste #EWasteRecycling #EWasteReuse
