knight2 wrote: Sat Oct 01, 2022 3:58 pm As I came down with flu yesterday I have spent the morning reading about sodium-ion batteries (instead of what I was meant to be doing) and although I can't quite match your enthusiam it is quite promising, probably because I am becoming very sceptical as I get older.
Going back to Stuart's video although technically inacurrate there was more than a grain of truth in what he said.
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The point you make about Cobalt is an interesting one. And it's much the same as the story found for oil extraction in some countries. Whole villages and towns polluted with seas of oil poisoning people and nature. Yet we don't ever mention that either when we talk about how lovely ICE engine cars are! Oil is poisoning thousands and thousands of people in many parts of the world and it's killing the planet. As are ICE engined cars.
Agreed, it just annoys me that a quarter of the way into the twenty first century we are still doing it, progress eh.

Now I have to hang my head in shame, techically anyway. Because one of the places in the UK that is leading SIB tech is about three miles from my house, I had heard of them just ignorant to what they did. The company being Faradion who are working with Sheffield university, now I new sheffield uni's were doing work with EV's but I thought it was with motors not batteries.
I watched a video interview with the CEO of Faradion which turned out to be a promo and not entirely accurate he said a company had invested a £ 100 million in the copamy after raving about how good this was going to be for sheffield, but a bit more looking around the web and it appears he has sold out to an Indian company. How accurate that is I'm not sure, but going back to Stuarts video and it shows it aways worth getting your info from more than one scource.
By the way nice conversing wth you, if that's what this is.