A conversation with Marnix ten Kortenaar (trained as Physical Chemist from the TUDelft) about batteries, water, desalination, upscaling, doing visibility studies, realisme, future battery demand, hydrogen and religion. And how it turns out that salt is in some way our cradle to life and has so much more to offer than we realize.

It is important to understand that the future trend for easy extractable lithium to sustain the demand will become scarce thus increasing the cost of lithium batteries from around 2030. Therefore there is a worldwide effort to find alternative battery salts to sustain the electrification demand.

There is in increasing demand for low density electron storage system to overcome some of the lithium shortcomings.

It turns out sea salt batteries are an interesting addition to the battery mix. Also because of the potential to use existing sea salt waste streams from seawater desalination plants and hydrogen production. Making it a possible contender to complete with the lithium and lead acid battries. Yet the road to full industrialization and upscaling of these type of sodium batteries have a steep hill to climb before it becomes business as usual.

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----------------------------------------------- As it turns out Lithium batteries cannot cope with high temperatures and direct sunlight's.
And these lithium batteries require software and electronics for it to function, which is not so useful when knowledge and hardware is not readily available when they breakdown.
In addition one cannot discharge Lithium and Lead Acid batteries 100% otherwise they battery will break.
As a result we are only using only around half of the battery capacity to ensure an optimal battery life. It seems to be a very inefficient process.
One needs electronics (like inverters) to be able to directly connect solar panels to Lithium and Lead Acid batteries, as there is a voltage difference between the panel and battery.
The upside of Lithium as battery salt is that it has a low density making it ideal to be a high density electron storage option.
Yet is can only discharge 1 electron at a time while other salts can do 2 times or more.
read more here - https://mastersofbeautifulachievements.com/podcast/ ----------------------------------------------- The Masters of Beautiful Achievements podcast series is where Alexander Prinsen explores natural science, innovation, systems thinking and leadership. As systemic innovation consul at scopematters.com he helps organizations accelerate to save costs, do good and operate within the planetary boundaries.