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Batteries are made from metals which have to be strip mined. It's really not any more environmentally friendly

• toomuchtodo 7y ago
  Lithium is evaporated from brine in ponds, not strip mined.
  • ppf 7y ago
    https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=lithium%20mine&tbs=imgo:1 https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=lithium%20mine&tbs=... Looks delightful.
    • toomuchtodo 7y ago
      Progress is a balance.
      • ppf 7y ago
        Externalizing environmental damage is not progress.
• mepiethree 7y ago
  Coal is strip mined too, and then burned. At least you don't burn batteries.