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[–] min0nim@aussie.zone 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great and all, but this is a literal press release. It could be PR spruiking, it could be pump’n’dump play, it could be friggin genuinely great. No way to know from a press release.

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Sodium ion batteries are already a thing. It's coming for sure. Either this or some other company. But we need it.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's always great when not depending by other countries I guess, specially when they are bloody dictatorships

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Now i know Australia has been having some trouble with conservatives recently and is overrun with emus, but i’m not sure the entire country counts as a bloody dictatorship yet.

[–] abhibeckert@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

We have the raw materials in Australia but not the capability to process them.

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Nothing stopping you from investing in moving up the value chain except a lack of government interest in doing so.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@sonori yea, not all suppliers of Lithium and other produce for modern batteries are bloody dictatorships. But sadly the whole world does not rely solely on them.

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

True, but the largest suppliers are democratic countries, and scale does matter in this type of conversation.

[–] 0x4E4F 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

...and is produced with minerals such as iron and sodium ...

Iron is a mineral 🤨?

[–] Alto@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

IIRC even ice is technically a mineral

[–] jonsnothere@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which makes water lava, technically speaking

[–] 0x4E4F 2 points 2 years ago

Wow 🤣... you guys are fun 🤣.

[–] 0x4E4F 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, you learn something new every day 👍.

[–] heluecht@pirati.ca 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@Alto @0x4E4F BTW: For astrophysicist every element except Helium and Hydrogen is metal.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@heluecht I just remembered how much I hated chemistry back in the elementary school and highschool. Thanks, haha!

@Alto @0x4E4F

[–] 0x4E4F 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm an engineer and I still don't understand chemical equations 🤣.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 3 points 2 years ago

@0x4E4F that's a bit more reassuring I guess 😂

[–] 0x4E4F 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

WTF 🤣🤣🤣, seriously 🤣?

[–] heluecht@pirati.ca 5 points 2 years ago

@0x4E4F Yeah, see the Wikipedia article about "Metallicity".

[–] abhibeckert@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Go look up mineral in a dictionary... it literally means anything solid that's not "organic".

So yeah iron and sodium (salt) are absolutely minerals and so is ice.

[–] 0x4E4F 2 points 2 years ago

So, minerals are then divided in subcategories, like metals, right?