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Ngl those videos of scooters catching fire in elevators kinda spooked me about lith tech in general.

Hoping sodium becomes more common but I gather thats not hugely likely due to chemistry diffs

I don’t know anything about sodium based batteries but sodium itself is a serious fire danger. Sodium is explosive in water, more so than lithium I believe.

Pure sodium, yes. Sodium mixtures, usually not; table salt is fairly inert.

So it depends entirely on the chemistry.

That’s true for basically any element including lithium

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