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China develops iron battery 80 times cheaper than lithium that can last 16 years. It provides a budget-friendly, high-endurance answer for the world’s massive energy storage needs. (interestingengineering.com)
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[–] 37 points 6 months ago (10 children)

anyone read that article?

It has absolutely zero information in it. It's a bunch of puffed up nothing. it's a website called interesting engineering but there's no engineering. it's an article with zero technical information.

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 6 months ago (9 children)
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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Why not post that

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  • [–] [S] 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    because I looked it up after reading your comment and I don't have the powers of precognition

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    This article says that the iron batteries cost is as low as $76.11 per kWh, but lithium ion prices are $108 per kWh right now. I have no idea how they got to 80x cheaper in that headline

    Edit: I think they're just saying that the cost of raw iron is 80x cheaper than the cost of raw lithium by weight. That's really deceptive

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Are they including the price over time if they last significantly longer than the lithium batteries?

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