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I mean… you can recycle batteries, too. And the environmental “issue” with batteries is largely a red herring (steel mining and even recycling would look bad if
by Robotbeat 5y ago
I mean… you can recycle batteries, too. And the environmental “issue” with batteries is largely a red herring (steel mining and even recycling would look bad if you had a campaign of misinformation against it like batteries do, cherry-picking dramatic industrial-scale images without comparison with what it is replacing).
$300/kWh isn’t anything to really write home about.
Not opposed to it, though. While I don’t think it’s a slam-dunk win against batteries by any stretch, it’s good enough not to be a waste of money if someone builds one (which is probably true for that cement-block gravity energy storage thing).
- usrusr 5y ago“you can recycle batteries“ It has been done, in a laboratory. Scrap steel is routinely sold at market rate.
- jeffbee 5y agoScrap batteries are also sold at market rate, because "sold at market rate" is a tautology, true of any subject.
- bane 5y agoNah, it's done every day in places all over Pakistan and India (and a few other places) https://youtu.be/afwO_MZjRjA https://youtu.be/afwO_MZjRjA
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoCar batteries arr recycled st a good price
- usrusr 5y agoGood luck building a BEV empire or grid storage on lead acid batteries.