Comment by iokanuon

6 months ago

If you don't have a bottom layer the sand will immediately fall

Actually thinking about it - why not have everything encased in sand all the time, you'd just have to be a kid playing in a sandbox when doing maintenance

  • Heat management. A battery that's surrounded by air can cool itself by convection. A battery that's buried in sand will eventually reach thermal saturation with the sand... at a temperature that it really really should not be at.