jack the nonabrasiveIn Australia, cheap at-scale grid battery storage has made natural gas generators obsolete for peak demand times. So, there's good news in countries that are actually working to make good news.
cauZation@karabaic With the increasingly wild swings in climate, #desalination makes pragmatic sense. #SodiumIon #batteries are a byproduct of desalination plants that haven't been pursued, nearly enough. Even wave conversion to energy is in the mix with these plants, with other benefits to be added.
@cauZation So, solar powered desalinization with sodium-ion grid storage in the same plant from the brine? Or the brine from d12n is a raw material for batteries?
ETA: Or the batteries themselves lower the energy demand for d12n? This seems to point to that:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260218031603.htm
New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater
A surprising breakthrough could help sodium-ion batteries rival lithium—and even turn seawater into drinking water. Scientists discovered that keeping water inside a key battery material, instead of removing it as traditionally done, dramatically boosts performance. The “wet” version stores nearly twice as much charge, charges faster, and remains stable for hundreds of cycles, placing it among the top-performing sodium battery materials ever reported.
@karabaic More: hydrogen and ammonia aren't far removed from these processes either. There's even ways to integrate solar and algae farming, as well as diminishing sarghassum problems.
But this is in the direct path of #FossilFuels; so all bets are off till those leaders are replaced with ethical scientists.