top | item 28906448 (no title) shadilay | 4 years ago Unlike oil you can recycle lithium. There is only so many new batteries needed and at some point most of the demand will be fed with recycled lithium. discuss order hn newest jjoonathan|4 years ago Exactly. You don't burn lithium into the atmosphere. Even depleted cells still have all the lithium they were created with.The process of getting lithium out of depleted cells and ready for new cells is a rapidly scaling industry at the moment. shadilay|4 years ago Furthermore refining old battery material into new feedstock is far less energy intensive than getting it out of the ground in the first place.
jjoonathan|4 years ago Exactly. You don't burn lithium into the atmosphere. Even depleted cells still have all the lithium they were created with.The process of getting lithium out of depleted cells and ready for new cells is a rapidly scaling industry at the moment. shadilay|4 years ago Furthermore refining old battery material into new feedstock is far less energy intensive than getting it out of the ground in the first place.
shadilay|4 years ago Furthermore refining old battery material into new feedstock is far less energy intensive than getting it out of the ground in the first place.
jjoonathan|4 years ago
The process of getting lithium out of depleted cells and ready for new cells is a rapidly scaling industry at the moment.
shadilay|4 years ago