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Are we burning the battery materials into gases and sending the results into the atmosphere? No, then we are unlikely to run out of materials on a primary or secondary, recycled, basis. Not to mention the diversity of choices available for chemistries and storage
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Impossible as there are so many chemistries, but hopefully we don't run out of water for pumped hydro.
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we might end up switching to sodium batteries for the grid, they’re heavier so not great for cars, but otherwise they’re fine
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Global scale HVDC networks could eliminate a significant part of the storage requirement.
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If we run out of Saltwater then we have very different problems at our hand.
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1. Sodium batteries 2. Kinetic Batteries
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It is far more likely to run out of practical fissile materials than it would be to run out of electrochemical materials.
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green gas or flow batteries
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