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Big if cheaper - which is the crux of the issue. LiFePO4 loses money in every analysis of putting in a home battery I've done: if sodium is more common, the qu

• RetroTechie 3y ago
  > the question is does that meaningfully reduce the price of the battery. Battery manufacture isn't rocket science. The cost of raw materials weighs heavily. Also: safety, and raw materials that can be sourced anywhere. Nice to see sodium battery production scaling up.
• cryptonector 3y ago
  > if sodium is more common What. Of course sodium is more common. Hundreds of times more common. You can get it from the sea, salt lakes, and salt mines. You buy it all the time in the form of table salt. It's crazy cheap by comparison to lithium, and just crazy cheap, really (though it wasn't always crazy cheap).