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Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage

(cleantechnica.com)
160 points xbmcuser | 6 comments | 23 Oct 25 01:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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labrador ◴[23 Oct 25 05:01 UTC] No.45678298[source]▶
It seems clear that na-ion batteries will replace large scale grid storage especially in cold climates. This isn't another hyped up battery.
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1. adgjlsfhk1 ◴[23 Oct 25 05:05 UTC] No.45678319[source]▶
I don't think cold climates will be that different here. grid scale storage doesn't care about outside temp because heating/cooling a warehouse is pretty cheap
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2. hyperadvanced ◴[23 Oct 25 05:29 UTC] No.45678440[source]▶
A lot of BESS enclosures (sub grid scale, and grid scale) are much more primitive than a warehouse. If you don’t need to pay for HVAC, it’s free money for the operator.
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3. lambdaone ◴[23 Oct 25 10:11 UTC] No.45680214[source]▶
You can also put internal heaters within the battery compartment itself, as with current EV batteries, and have the batteries manage their own temperature automatically.
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4. bmicraft ◴[23 Oct 25 11:58 UTC] No.45680835{3}[source]▶
Resistive heating is pretty wasteful, and heat pumps are expensive. If it's not necessary then leaving it out will be much more efficient.
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5. hyperadvanced ◴[23 Oct 25 19:08 UTC] No.45685588{4}[source]▶
That’s my core comment here. Batteries already have to fight a lot of entropy, don’t make it harder than you need to
6. mmooss ◴[23 Oct 25 21:06 UTC] No.45687162[source]▶
Heating and cooling is pretty energy-intensive, which comes right out of the marginal profit of owning batteries. They might as well hook up the heating/cooling system to the batteries.