• Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.net
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    20 hours ago

    Given inefficiency you need 10% of virgin materials to make a new one, and there are batteries that don’t end up in the recycling stream

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      12 hours ago

      It still means every gram of the materials are yielding essentially 10x of use. And when we make these huge batteries it’s easier to get them back to the recycling stream since we can easily make that the only way you dispose of them.

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        11 hours ago

        Fundamentally as long ad the atoms still exist they should be theoritically recoverable but the last percent is gonna be harder than the first 99%

        Materials Recycling needs to be a major research focus