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this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
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Isn't titanium expensive? I would guess they'd try something like silicon or graphite that is way much abundant
While it is relatively expensive compared to iron, we actually use 95% of all titanium mined for white paint since titanium dioxide is really white.
So if we're able to put almost all titanium production into white paint, I think we could take some of that capacity and put it towards batteries.
Yeah a friend told me something like that but he forgot to compute how much energy is needed for silicon and how much for titanium. Like aluminium is one of the most used materials but it still is a massive use of energy to refine it from bauxite or what-you-have.
Don't know, I'd say the mainstream is trying to go grapheme and or silicon and these dudes are trying different stuff for the sake of doing it differently.