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00:00 - Intro
00:42 - Sodium-Ion
05:06 - Thermal Energy Storage
08:26 - Liquid Iron Flow
10:59 - Solid State
12:33 - Silicon

[ChrispyNut]

0:33 "So, what kinds of batteries am I keeping an ion". hahaha, I see what you did there. 😜

[macaron]

Sodium Ion tech is still the one that I'm the most excited about. Safe batteries that are easy to make with abundant materials? Hell yeah.

[cameronf]

Sodium Ion honestly makes me extremely excited for stationary storage bases. Between Starlink, solar perovskites, and sodium ion home batteries I’m getting more and more excited to build a cabin in the mountains someday everyday.

[michiganengineer]

One of the biggest drawbacks to large scale desalination (other than the power required) has always been what to do with the concentrated salt solution after the potable water has been made. It would need further purification, but those Sodium Battery plants might be a good candidate for using the salts.

[bromson]

For those wondering like me. The Picture for batsand at 5:00 is the heatexchanger/ controlunit. The mentioned 40m^3 are to be buried outside and connected to said exchanger

[BaranVV]

Yea! A paper, where I am a co-author, appears in the YT video!!!

[EverXFun]

Wow! There are so many new battery "Breakthroughs" and yet we still use the same 30+ year old battery tech. I wonder, when the new amazing batteries enter the market and change the world. I have been waiting for at least 10 years now.

[a]

Cheaper batteries as long as the efficiency is good even if the energy density is not great is an interesting thing for prototyping, DIY, off-grid home applications!

[Shanghaimartin]

I always liked gravitational storage.
Whether 2 lakes at different levels or a crane lifting and lowering huge concrete blocks :)

[broadsword]

Those drone shots of battery farms at the start of the video make me wonder why they aren't roofed in solar panels.

[boroxify]

'what batteries are you keeping an ion" killed me - bravo

[adon]

Thanks for the video. Please do not use salt interchangeably with sodium. There aren't the same. Sodium is an alkali metal while a salt is a product of a neutralization reaction between an acid and a base. The salt you are referring to (or common salt) is sodium chloride and it's one of numerous kinds of salts. The statement "salt is less energy dense than lithium" should be replaced with "sodium ion batteries are less energy dense than equivalent lithium ion batteries". The word "equivalent" is also of critical importance because both sodium and lithium batteries come in various chemistries, forms and nuances that can affect their energy densities.

[zettaiengineer]

The electric eel is a rechargable sodium-ion battery that is self replicating, safe for the environment, with zero fire incidents over it's long development.


Amazon currently carries several versions but shockingly there's no competition despite it's high potential.

[AGeekTragedy]

5:44 The way Americans say "squirrel" as one syllable will never not be funny to me

[SheepdogTV]

The Amprius facility in Colorado is not in production yet. They haven't even moved in at this time. I drive by it daily.

[OcienOnce]

Very useful for home power backup system is sodium ion battery

[donchernoff]

Enovix is already ramping production of a pure Si anode battery, they are at least a year ahead of Amprius and their batteries are much cheaper. Sila only makes a Si anode material that they sell to battery OEMs, they have no plans to make their own batteries from what I've heard them say.

[MrLargonaut]

Heh, you're keeping an ion batteries for us. Much appreciated.

[notsoanonymous]

Clever closing: “what batteries are you keeping an ion?” lol 🤓

[de]

Some time ago I read about this thing called Pumped Heat, which stores energy as heat but by the compression of a gas to create that heat and an expansion side to create a cold side. So here it isnt really storing energy as heat, but more accurately as a temperature difference. Its a closed system too