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There are quite a few stories about companies and research groups gunning for increasingly high lithium extraction from spent batteries. We're not there yet, bu
by loufe 5y ago
There are quite a few stories about companies and research groups gunning for increasingly high lithium extraction from spent batteries. We're not there yet, but leave it to an open market to extract something of value as efficiently as possible from an effectively free resource.
- ErikVandeWater 5y ago> We're not there yet, but leave it to an open market to extract something of value as efficiently as possible from an effectively free resource. Recycling can never be free or even close. There's a lot of processing that goes from dismantling a battery, to segregating the lithium, to putting it back in a new battery. Recycle is last of the 3 Rs for a reason.