@gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-05-05 09:27 UTC
@dymaxion @bascule honestly, I think we would be better not electrifying our current car and spending that effort on more public transport and more lightweight solution like electric bike but that's probably another subject.
IMO, the doubling point is only because lithium had more R&D than sodium. Wikipedia say the density range is 75-200 W·h/kg against 160-300 for standard lithium. They also said aince 1991, the lithium density improved threefold. I would not be surprised if sodium catch up
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@dymaxion@infosec.exchange 2026-05-05 09:38
@gkrnours @bascule While I don't disagree in the long-term, public transit rollouts require state funding and decades, and a lot of the point of this is that the market is actually the thing driving the transition at this point, and it's driving it now, not in twenty years. So it will be lithium, and yes, resource wars are going to be messy, but the outcome from waiting is many orders of magnitude worse.