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> For the moment, its creators have not disclosed the composition of the materials wrapped around the two electrodes of their sodium-ion battery—a trade secret.
by afarrell 11y ago
> For the moment, its creators have not disclosed the composition of the materials wrapped around the two electrodes of their sodium-ion battery—a trade secret.
I wonder if it might make sense for Gates and the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to just outright buy certain proprietary technologies and put them in the public domain. If so, I wonder how they should best evaluate if this might be one such technology.
- legulere 11y agoThey don't keep it proprietary because they want money, but because they want the companies producing the batteries to be local ones.
- afarrell 11y agoWhich I understand from a nationalist perspective, but it also harms deployment because manufacturing costs are probably higher in France than Japan or Korea