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If only we could find a child-slavery free way to extract and process the cobalt.
by StarterPro 3y ago
If only we could find a child-slavery free way to extract and process the cobalt.
- thebruce87m 3y agoThere are LFP batteries that don’t use cobalt if you want to use less of it. It’s used for refining crude oil so you can’t get away from it completely.
- morepork 3y agoWe can, it's just more expensive, so capitalism does its thing https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1219246964/cobalt-is-important-for-green-energy-so-why-has-americas-only-coablt-mine-closed https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1219246964/cobalt-is-importan...
- genman 3y agoWe can, but it happens that one country prone to child labor usage happens to have large deposits of it with everything it entails.