Houthis are funded by SA and Iran.

houthis are at war with saudi arabia for better part of last decade, and more broadly for almost three decades. it’s a part of proxy iran-saudi conflict

They are attacking because of Israel’s genocidal treatment of 2 million people in Gaza

they are attacking because iran told them so. houthis, like hezbollah, are iranian proxies

Russia tried to shoot down a RAF jet last year

and turks shot down a russian jet couple of years ago, and ultimately also nothing happened

Why didn’t they do an emergency recall to put the decision before Congress and HoC? They are playing with fire and they know it.

bs. airstrikes are easy and low-risk, the real, permanent solution to this problem would be boots on the ground and/or high intensity airstrikes on iranian weapons manufacturers. neither are gonna happen, but airstrikes provide that “something is being done” vibe

since when saudis or iranians have nukes?

sodium isn’t electroactive there tho, it’s just a part of electrolyte. also dubious if you can make savings on lithium work if one option for anode is solid lithium metal

it’s not, it’s just institutional inertia

it’s more of continuing series of AI hype

this article is about changes to solid electrolyte only, you’d know that if you read the article. these have less conductivity ( = lower power density) tho

And have better capacity and a longer life?

it took 9 months of real lab work by real material scientists just to make it work, things like dendrite formation or swelling aren’t part of this optimization (well at least AI stage), the linked preprint doesn’t even mention dendrites once

this work does nothing to address this, and they also include yttrium, because they focus on solid electrolytes for some reason (probably because chemical space is smaller)

you would know that if you read the article. they replaced part of lithium in electrolyte with sodium, so that they can use less lithium. the problem is decreased ion mobility ie less power density in real life terms.

Baker and Murugesan both say that lots of work is left to optimise the new battery.

bet

i’m gonna mostly ignore this finding because it sounds like extension of AI hype. real lab work is still absolutely critical in order to make it work

it took 9 months of lab work (by actual skilled material scientists) to make it tick, don’t hold your breath