andrawesbahou

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by andrawesbahou 3y ago
Someone in the chip design lab at ETH Zurich (IIS) wrote a script to get metal deposited during the chip fabrication process, without causing short-circuits. The script would take images and convert them into the metal deposition pattern. T
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Capslock Delay Fixer for Linux(github.com)
2 points by andrawesbahou 4y ago|0 comments
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by andrawesbahou 5y ago
Sorry for that, I updated my profile with email.
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by andrawesbahou 5y ago
It's unlikely they will end up in a landfill. A completely spent battery has cobalt, nickel, manganese, lithium, copper and steel which can fetch around $1500 on average. The trick is in how cheaply you can extract those. (The main cos
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by andrawesbahou 5y ago
It's going to be hard to push regulation to specifically make it easier to dissassemble them. However, regulation that makes the manufacturer responsible throughout the life of the battery (and beyond the vehicle's warranty period
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by andrawesbahou 5y ago
No joke, cutting it out makes the batteries explode if they are not deeply discharged.
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by andrawesbahou 5y ago
Recycling in the case of a battery means shredding it, and reducing it into a so-called "black mass", a powder rich in cobalt and nickel. What I've seen is a lot of premature recycling, where batteries with about 70-80% of th
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by andrawesbahou 5y ago
The $2000USD figure is approximately correct. We've run the numbers to be between $800-3200 depending on the weight of the battery, and how difficult it is to disassemble. 3200 for a 700kg Porsche Tycan battery. (My cofounder and I lau