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Sodium-ion batteries are real in China. BYD to build 30 GWh sodium battery plant (carnewschina.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Can reject/waste from desalination plants be used for sodium batteries?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Would have to do extra refining, since there are other dissolved things besides table salt.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Still, they'd likely have to separate out impurities from mined sodium deposits as well, so it sounds like a good use of the by-product from the desalination process where possible

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Exactly, it's just being dumped right now as a pollutant.