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Great and all, but this is a literal press release. It could be PR spruiking, it could be pump’n’dump play, it could be friggin genuinely great. No way to know from a press release.

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Sodium ion batteries are already a thing. It’s coming for sure. Either this or some other company. But we need it.

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

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We have the raw materials in Australia but not the capability to process them.

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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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…and is produced with minerals such as iron and sodium …

Iron is a mineral 🤨?

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IIRC even ice is technically a mineral

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Which makes water lava, technically speaking

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Wow 🤣… you guys are fun 🤣.

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Wow, you learn something new every day 👍.

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@Alto @0x4E4F BTW: For astrophysicist every element except Helium and Hydrogen is metal.

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Go look up mineral in a dictionary… it literally means anything solid that’s not “organic”.

So yeah iron and sodium (salt) are absolutely minerals and so is ice.

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So, minerals are then divided in subcategories, like metals, right?

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