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How viable is lithium recycling?
by duaneb 10y ago
How viable is lithium recycling?
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoThis article says a lot about it: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214993714000037 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214993714... tl;dr: its hard because lithium cells are complex materials mixed at a very fine scale (coatings and doping). It has to be chemically separated; smelting won't do it.
- mizzao 10y agoThere are so many discarded batteries from old electronic devices. Even chemical separation must be more effective than digging it out of the earth, right?
- mjevans 10y agoYou'd probably assume liability for all of the other stuff that's around that thin lithium lining. It must be cost, because I can't think of any other reason that we don't have micro-machine dis-assemblers for slowly picking apart our garbage in to neatly binned resources.