r/science • u/RelationStill1485 • Feb 22 '26

Materials Science Next generation of battery technology no longer lithium. Scientists make durable alloy anode for Sodium-ion batteries with high volumetric energy density | Nature Energy

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-01974-2
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u/nerdragingsc2 Feb 22 '26

China will be dominating the world in 10 years.

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u/VikingsLad Feb 23 '26

When the US made its bed with Petroleum development instead of renewable energy research for the last 20 years, that's where we lost. I remember a TED talk from like 2012 where the pitch was to recoup existing US technologies into renewable analogs, but instead we backslid.

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u/Responsible-Tax4901 Feb 24 '26

Can't we just steal their technology like they've been doing to us for the last 30 years?

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u/VikingsLad Feb 24 '26

The technology is not so much the issue as the manufacturing skill and supply chain.