whitacre sodium ion battery Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 06:24:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Jay Whitacre’s New & Cheap Sodium-Ion Batteries Funded by DOE https://www.greenoptimistic.com/jay-whitacres-new-cheap-sodium-ion-batteries-funded-by-doe-20091211/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/jay-whitacres-new-cheap-sodium-ion-batteries-funded-by-doe-20091211/#respond Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:38:02 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5731 Sodium is several orders of magnitude more available than lithium, and that makes it cheaper to use in batteries. Taking into account the destination of the projected batteries, to act like a buffer for storing renewable electricity, low voltages are enough, so making the technology cheaper by using a water-based electrolyte wasn't hard to think of.

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