☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoSodium-ion batteries are real in China. BYD to build 30 GWh sodium battery plantcarnewschina.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down18
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minus-squareArgentCorvid [Iowa]@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoWould have to do extra refining, since there are other dissolved things besides table salt.
minus-squarephx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoStill, they'd likely have to separate out impurities from mined sodium deposits as well, so it sounds like a good use of the by-product from the desalination process where possible
minus-squareSzymon@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-211 months agoExactly, it's just being dumped right now as a pollutant.
Would have to do extra refining, since there are other dissolved things besides table salt.
Still, they'd likely have to separate out impurities from mined sodium deposits as well, so it sounds like a good use of the by-product from the desalination process where possible
Exactly, it's just being dumped right now as a pollutant.