• @expatriado
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      181 year ago

      for the first 2 seconds: that’s no bad… then all the pop ups came on

        • Otter
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          71 year ago

          Firefox+ublock seemed to take care of it for me. I had to refresh the page before I could scroll though

      • Oliver
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        61 year ago

        Had just 4 X-Buttons… could be worse. 🥸

        • Bonehead
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          51 year ago

          One of those X’s was actually a Twitter logo. Fucking thing gets me all the time…

          • @Tag365
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            21 year ago

            I remember when at my 2-4 grade school my teachers talked about “x-ing” out of programs and applications on a computer instead of closing. Something like this would be a surprise.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      LOL I have Ublock Origin so I don’t see the pop-ups but the website just freezes after 3 seconds of scrolling, and I have to leave. They’ve really ruined their site. 😆

    • Drew Got No Clue
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      41 year ago

      I have custom DNS filtering on my iPhone and the website looks perfectly fine. No ads or anything.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        That doesn’t mean the website isn’t garbage. It’s good to call out trash sites like this so that people will stop going there.

      • TheRealKuni
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        11 year ago

        I just have Wipr (which is not a particularly good adblocker, it fails utterly at handling anti-adblocker sites), and it looks just fine on my phone too.

  • Ertebolle
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    191 year ago

    “Think again, Jimmy. You see the firing pin in your gun was made out of, yep, zinc.”

  • Dave
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    71 year ago

    I wonder if it can be cheaper and better at scale than iron-air batteries. Those seem inexpensive to make, and can carry a large enough capacity if you put a whole lot of them in parallel with each other, and have a long lifetime. They’re just really heavy for their amount of energy density and fairly low current per cell, but that shouldn’t be a problem when building enough to be grid-scale.

    • @Zeth0s
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      21 year ago

      At that point one can use Na/O2… Much higher energy released by redox reaction, much lighter

  • @Son_of_dad
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    51 year ago

    Eli5? Don’t zinc batteries suck compared to lithium?

    • marsokod
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      331 year ago

      It depends on what you value. For performance and power density, nothing really beats lithium at the moment.

      However, for grid-scale battery these parameters are not necessarily very important. What matters most is cost over the lifetime, and that’s wher zinc batteries could be useful. They have the potential to be much cheaper than the cheapest lithium batteries.

    • @Zeth0s
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      They do. They are just looking for cheap way to store energy. They don’t care if batteries are big, heavy and less efficient, they need something as cheap as possible for a range of use cases where cost is important.

      Lithium is expensive. My bet is that, on the long term, sodium will be used for such use cases. But in practice decision must account for practical limitations, primarily supply chain

  • @Chickenstalker
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    11 year ago

    No. Move to bio-based supercapacitors that uses biopolymers.

    • NotMyOldRedditName
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      171 year ago

      Energy density on these are woefully inadequate for cars, but that doesn’t matter for stationary storage which is what this is for.

      • @painfulasterisk
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        71 year ago

        I’m more interested in how they will troubleshoot and perform preventative maintenance to the battery, since halides are quite toxic.