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Bonus points is less reliance on lithium provider like China to feed the electric car revolution. In current diplomatic state, that matters a lot.

• metalman 2y ago
  It can and will go the other way, China can scale, bigger and faster than anyone. China is also free from, ahem, "market stuborness",and quickly adopts whatever is best,now. 9 billion people, which state of diplomacy was it mattering? where?,with who? What matters now, is the abiliy of nation states to show sustainable development, and the ability to respond to mega disasters assosiated with climate change and geopolitical shenanagens. And sodium batteries are going to be very usefull in keeping the lights on and people moving where they need to go, and do that without regard to the price of oil.
  • toomuchtodo 2y ago
    China is going to kill oil with their manufacturing capacity.
  • aucisson_masque 2y ago
    > China can scale, bigger and faster than anyone. China is also free from, ahem, "market stuborness",and quickly adopts whatever is best,now. People said that about the Soviet Union 60 years ago, don't underestimate bureaucracy.