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Money talks, Nazis don’t have integrity.
Bitterfeld-Wolfen, 140km south-west of Berlin
I really hope for the people that this will bring some solid jobs to the area. I visited Bitterfeld in May, and it’s pretty rough in some places. You can tell how many jobs were lost after the wall came down.
A picture of Wolfen Nord, where many dwelling units were already demolished, leaving people without neighbours and local infrastructure:
Sachsen-Anhalt is Berliner Umland now. Already heard someone say “Magdeburg bei Berlin”
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And, did the poster your replied to say anything otherwise? It is south west of Berlin. Berlin is not the border of East Germany. Well, technically part of it was, but you get the point.
What’s with the rumors (?) about sodium batteries? When they work and are much cheaper, who needs lithium in the foreseeable future?
Their theoretical energy density are half of what lithium achieves. While their price and ecology probably makes sense in some cases, good luck marketing an ev with half the range, or a cellphone that lasts half a day.
I haven’t been following them, but my understanding is that as well. However, I would point out that they may free up some lithium for EV use from uses where energy density is less important.
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Afaik, there are many experiments and ventures on energy storage, like natrium, Solid State etc. But at the moment they aren’t vialable for commercial, technical or production reasons . Lithium as an element has unique storage & cycle properties, as I understand it. You need more energy and space for natrium battery in cars, which won’t make them usable for now.
Then again, tomorrow may come a breakthrough, but this is what we’ve been hearing for many years. So it seems they will stick with lithium.
BYD demosntrated the BYD Seagull using a natrium battery. It is certainly not completly crazy to use it.
We have a lot of experience with Lithium in production, we have close to zero experience with other battery technologies.
It took Lithium 15-20 years to get from research to large scale use in cars, so you can expect the same for other technologies
