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TheLoafOfBread
on Nov 17, 2022
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Overhyping hydrogen as a fuel
> No, phosphate is vastly cheaper than battery metals
Lithium used to be cheap. Is not anymore. Phosphate will go same route. That's the whole point.
ajross
on Nov 17, 2022
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I repeat: if phosphate was so expensive as to make a significant portion of the material cost of a LiFePO4 battery, then
we would have long since starved for lack of crops
. Relative to food, batteries are an extraordinarily expensive luxury good.
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Lithium used to be cheap. Is not anymore. Phosphate will go same route. That's the whole point.