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My comment was in reply to mining trash dumps. Batteries obviously have a small (-ish) set of possible compounds and it should be economically feasible to recy
by coryrc 5y ago
My comment was in reply to mining trash dumps.
Batteries obviously have a small (-ish) set of possible compounds and it should be economically feasible to recycle used batteries once there is sufficient volume that needs to be recycled. (I guess we're still at least a decade away but that remains to be seen... if it's sufficiently efficient, it could be cheaper to recycle than reuse older batteries).
- kragen 5y agoYeah, I was saying you can use the same processes for mining trash dumps that you use for mining natural rock. Maybe there are more economically productive techniques specific to mining trash dumps (computer vision with conveyor belts, desoldering electronic components, deshredding correspondence to blackmail politicians with) but the usual rock-processing techniques form a minimal baseline. If you heat anything up enough it becomes rock again. (And gaseous oxides like those of carbon and sulfur.)