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Swedish company Northvolt develops new state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery produced with locally sourced materials, entirely independent of traditional battery value chains(feddit.de)

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petrescatraian@libranet.de
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It’s always great when not depending by other countries I guess, specially when they are bloody dictatorships

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Sonori@beehaw.org
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Now i know Australia has been having some trouble with conservatives recently and is overrun with emus, but i’m not sure the entire country counts as a bloody dictatorship yet.

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petrescatraian@libranet.de
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@sonori yea, not all suppliers of Lithium and other produce for modern batteries are bloody dictatorships. But sadly the whole world does not rely solely on them.

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Sonori@beehaw.org
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True, but the largest suppliers are democratic countries, and scale does matter in this type of conversation.

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abhibeckert@beehaw.org
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We have the raw materials in Australia but not the capability to process them.

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Sonori@beehaw.org
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Nothing stopping you from investing in moving up the value chain except a lack of government interest in doing so.

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