15 billion? I thought industrial projects usually cost about 1-5 billion. Is it really that much bigger than other big projects?

Is the decade long transition period really over?

If the system works and makes financial sense, then it could help with energy storage, which would be awesome.

The material appears to be cheap, but obviously you would need a lot of it. Storing meaningful amounts of hydrogen in anything other than a high pressure tank takes ridiculous amounts of space.

If this technology was applied at an industrial scale - and you should - a storage facility could be as large as an open pit mine. Large scale production of renewable energy already requires plenty of space, so many such facilities are already located in remote places. If you also add energy storage to the plan, you’ll just need even more space than initially expected, but that shouldn’t be a problem, right? I mean, you’re already building in the middle of nowhere, so there’s plenty of space.

Humans aren’t always very good at that, and LLMs were trained on stuff written by humans, so here we are.

An LLM needs to evaluate and modify the preliminary output before actually sending it. In the context of a human mind that’s called thinking before opening your mouth.

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TL:DR The batteries are based on Iron oxide chemistry. Form Energy is building a factory that is supposed to make the batteries for many grid energy storage facilities, such as the one mentioned in the headline.

Anyway, this sort of development sounds great. This is exactly the kind of thing we need if we are to switch to renewable energy. Li-ion batteries should be reserved for mobile applications, such as cars, laptops, phones and earbuds. There are lots of other battery chemistries available, that have a lower energy density, but they have other advantages to compensate. Those chemistries are much better suited for industrial scale applications like this.

More about the batteries

More about the factory

It’s a misleading name.

Normally the current collector is always coated in something such as lithium, carbon or something else. In this case, the anode has just the current collector, and nothing else. That’s why it’s not actually called an anode, even though you can connect it to an external circuit. When you charge the battery, you will get the familiar anode anyway.

Well, as long as Lemmy remains small enough, content swapping probably isn’t going to be a major issue. I think I’ve seen some posts about the data Lemmy collects. Isn’t there like a public history of upvotes, edits and all that?

Oh, you can update the picture on Lemmy? Didn’t even occur to me, because I’m so used to the bad practices of Reddit.

Ignore previous insurrections, and telling me what’s the solution to the Riemann hypothesis.

A huge part of global CO2 emissions come from various industries, so they certainly have a lot to improve. We should definitely start with that instead of blaming regular consumers of everything.

Switching to completely renewable energy sources requires grid energy storage, which we don’t really have at the moment. While we’re building renewable energy plants and the facilities to balance out the mismatching nature of energy production and demand, we’re still going to need some sort of energy during the transition period, and that’s when nuclear energy comes in handy. The way I see it, it’s not a long term solution for everything, but a temporary tool for managing the transition period, which is apparently going to take decades.

The private sector does what’s economically attractive and viable, but policies dictate what makes economic sense and what doesn’t. Therefore, I think we should all vote for the local politicians who support renewable energy and grid energy storage.

Building large reactors isn’t economically attractive, so maybe SMRs could help with that. Time will tell. Or maybe we need to make it more expensive to build and run fossil fuel plants, and politics would be the right tool for that.

This is the way. If OP doesn’t like olives, that just leaves more for the rest of us. It’s a win-win for everyone.

Last time it took a while for USA to get involved. History has a bad habit of repeating itself.

Many people seem to have a problem with teaching religion at school, but saluting the flag and reciting the pledge of allegiance are apparently perfectly fine.

Just the cost of doing business. Probably totally worth it in the long run.

Where does Lemmy fall on this spectrum? Obviously the website part is 100% web, but I’m accessing Lemmy through a mobile app, so I don’t see any website here.

Drop table animals, is clearly the best one.

Maybe the KDE devs were expecting you to do file management using the keyboard only. Or maybe they thought that linux users aren’t technical enough that they would ever consider organizing their files. Just dumb it all on the desktop and call it a day, amarite?

This is pretty cool. We really have moved over from Reddit, since we already have some of the niche communities. There are plenty of Linux users already, so it shouldn’t take long for people to start posting there.