Aquarius, we're never going to save the planet if you keep cutting down trees to make panels for your car!
/tongue-in-cheek
So how exactly are EVs going to save the planet?
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The bit on battery recycling is interesting...
Second use for stationary power and grid applications...made perfect sense when that was offered as a solution.
But Every Power Wall and gird scale battery is virgin...there goes that idea.
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Belgium-based Umicore is both a major producer of battery materials and Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery recycler. It uses a high-temperature technology in its facility near Antwerp, Belgium. There, it can recycle up to 7,000 metric tons per year of all types of lithium-ion batteries, equivalent to what’s inside 35,000 electric vehicles.
Umicore’s process converts the batteries into two fractions. An alloy fraction containing cobalt, nickel, and copper undergoes further separation. A slag fraction can be added to concrete.
There goes the Lithium into the concrete...we run out of it first time round trying to batterify the globe...if it's lost in the recycling process, then are the giant holes and toxic ponds worth it ?
The bit on battery recycling is interesting...
Second use for stationary power and grid applications...made perfect sense when that was offered as a solution.
But Every Power Wall and gird scale battery is virgin...there goes that idea.
Quote:
Belgium-based Umicore is both a major producer of battery materials and Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery recycler. It uses a high-temperature technology in its facility near Antwerp, Belgium. There, it can recycle up to 7,000 metric tons per year of all types of lithium-ion batteries, equivalent to what’s inside 35,000 electric vehicles.
Umicore’s process converts the batteries into two fractions. An alloy fraction containing cobalt, nickel, and copper undergoes further separation. A slag fraction can be added to concrete.
There goes the Lithium into the concrete...we run out of it first time round trying to batterify the globe...if it's lost in the recycling process, then are the giant holes and toxic ponds worth it ?
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