• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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      623 days ago

      Note that this is not a catch with this recycling process (necessarily, anyway; the article doesn’t get into too many specifics) but rather an end-run to make lithium mining and refining appear less awful than it actually is.

      Mining new lithium may be “cheaper” in raw dollars and cents provided only you don’t include the environmental impact or the costs of dealing with the same as a line item on the invoice.

      • Riddick3001
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        3 days ago

        lithium mining and refining appear less awful than it actually is.

        So do I undertand you correctly it’s just an “eventuality option simulation” to lower the environmental footprint?

        Like for example the listed WLTP* Kw/h / fuel consumption of cars in perfect (lab)conditions which never exist?

        *Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure