Altech Batteries (ASX:ATC) launching ‘table salt’ battery tech as world demands energy storage solutions, page-36

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very interesting the last part about the third solution where Fraunhofer IKTS mentioned.

Translated with deepl:

...The Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS), among others, is working to change that. The institute has continued to advance decades of research on the sodium chloride battery. Alexander Michaelis, head of Fraunhofer IKTS, explains, "The design was originally very complex because it was designed for electric cars. We simplified that and optimized it on the size so that an extremely low-cost battery comes out." A pilot plant in Dresden is already in place. Now, together with the Australian battery company Altech, the institute wants to build an industrial-scale plant in the Saxon town of Schwarze Pumpe...