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If you generated all of the energy you used via atomic power at the end of your life the total size of that waste is about the size of a coke can. 1. How much
by cmdrfred 10y ago
If you generated all of the energy you used via atomic power at the end of your life the total size of that waste is about the size of a coke can.
1. How much lithium waste will be produced each year by this process? Aren't we talking creating more batteries than we ever have before by several orders of magnitude here? We send most of our ewaste to the third world to be burned currently, this sounds like an ecological disaster.
2. Do you really believe that in 75 years time the United States won't have the ability to safely store or simply hurl 400 million coke cans at the sun? A big project for sure but the reward is virtually unlimited, virtually free energy.
- toomuchtodo 10y ago> How much lithium waste will be produced each year by this process? It doesn't matter. It can all be recycled. > Do you really believe that in 75 years time the United States won't have the ability to safely store or simply hurl 400 million coke cans at the sun? I don't believe we're competent enough to manage nuclear waste in any form.
- cmdrfred 10y ago>It doesn't matter. It can all be recycled It can be, it isn't happening currently: "As of 2017, the recycling of Li-Ion batteries generally does not extract lithium since the many different types of Li-Ion batteries require a different extraction process.[6] Another reason why it isn't being done is because the extraction of lithium from old batteries is 5x more expensive as mined lithium" Even so when recycled it still creates toxic waste in large quantities. What shall we do with that? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_recycling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_recycling
- toomuchtodo 10y agohttps://www.tesla.com/blog/teslas-closed-loop-battery-recycling-program https://www.tesla.com/blog/teslas-closed-loop-battery-recycl...