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New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater (www.sciencedaily.com)
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[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

But you can't imagine it doing a lot more?

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think batteries will soak up that much salt for their use. And I'd imagine they saturate over time. It's very different than something built specifically for deslination.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Each battery won't, but a factory making lots of batteries...

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Maybe. If it was a compelling case I'd think they'd show us the data.