lithium_throw

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by lithium_throw 5y ago
>trapped by typhoons and Covid outbreaks that have worsened major congestion in the global supply-chain network. Yes, I did. There is no way that the delicate machinery of international trade has already recovered - large parts of the wo
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
It's the result of our response to Covid. Shutting down the entire global supply chain for months was certain to have dramatic effects, I'm just suprised it took this long. I'm sure interested parties are also making full u
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
It happens for me every re-boot - my browser is re-set to the "recommended default".
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
Makes you wonder who's really benefitting from this drive to switch to EVs.
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
Sure, cobalt can be recycled from EV batteries (it's one of the few things that is currently economical to extract, and even then, only if the batteries are essentially incinerated first). At around 98% recovery, that means you'd
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
>It's not nothing; so it isn't misinformation. I could nitpick over your definition of "a very large amount of cobalt is used in petroleum refining", but the fact that an EV owner creates orders of magnitude more dema
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
Apparently, a typical EV battery contains 0.13kg cobalt per kwh. That's 13kg cobalt in a 100kwh battery. Over ten years, I might drive 100,000 miles, using 12,500 litres of petrol. That's 13g cobalt, in the form of sulphur-removin
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by lithium_throw 5y ago
>For example cobalt is used for getting rid of sulfur in pretty large quantities as part of the oil refining process. I don't know why this piece of misleading information is recently circulating so much. By far the most common usag