Are Cheap, Salty Batteries The Answer to Energy Storage?! Sodium Batteries with LiNa Energy!
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🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week Imogen picks up the podcast duties and speaks with Arvind Sabharwal and Will Tope, Chairman and CEO of LiNa Energy, a UK based battery technology company.
By utilising one of the most abundant elements, sodium, the rediscovery of a previously forgotten battery chemistry and borrowing a few bits of technology garnered from fuel cell development, the team at LiNa have created a new, long duration stationary energy storage solution in the form of sodium solid state lithium free batteries.
This is a fascinating discussion with a company at the cutting edge of a critical technology.
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| 0:00.0 | you know, Bo, who's my eldest, is saying, like, stop burning things. |
| 0:03.6 | But actually, I think, you know, I ask him, like, what does Daddy do at work? |
| 0:06.7 | And he just says, make batteries for money. |
| 0:10.5 | And so maybe that's my commercial side rubbing off on him on all the wrong ones. |
| 0:26.1 | Hello, and welcome to another episode of the fully charged show podcast. |
| 0:31.2 | Today we're talking sodium solid state lithium-free batteries. |
| 0:35.5 | Now sodium, which makes up about 40% of salt, is cheap, it's abundant, |
| 0:38.3 | and critically we have a lot of it here in the UK. |
| 0:45.7 | So unsurprisingly, it's getting a lot of attention with people like BYD building sodium gigafactories as we speak. |
| 0:53.2 | But the question is, could this be where the UK really cements its position as a global leader in this battery ecosystem? |
| 0:58.3 | Well, very shortly, I'm going to be joined by Will Tope, CEO of Lena Energy here in Lancaster and Arvin Saboal, who is chair of the board. |
| 1:01.3 | But before we get to them, two very quick things to tell you. |
| 1:04.8 | First of all, I'm Imogen Bogle. |
| 1:06.6 | I am one of the presenters here on the fully charged show and the Everything Electric Show. |
| 1:10.2 | And whilst I am truly biased, I do highly recommend both of those channels. |
| 1:14.4 | So do go and check them out once you've had a little foray into the world of salty batteries. |
| 1:19.4 | And secondly, I have to tell you about our Everything Electric Live shows. |
| 1:23.1 | Next up, we're at the London Excel at the end of March, |
| 1:25.4 | and it is going to be a fantastic festival of clean energy and electric vehicles. |
| 1:30.3 | There'll be some sensational speakers. |
| 1:32.2 | There'll be all sorts of home energy technologies to see and to try out and to speak to the |
| 1:36.7 | experts, as well as an absolute ton of electric vehicles to test out for yourself. |
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