grundar t1_jef5cq1 wrote
Reply to comment by GwynbleiddSilver in Inexpensive and environmentally friendly mechanochemical recycling process recovers 70% of lithium from batteries by chrisdh79
> we need to move away from lithium batteries.
Why?
The dominant lithium producer is Australia, which produces via standard hard-rock mining, so producing most lithium is no more harmful than any other developed-world mine.
Compared to the 7,500 Mt of coal mined per year and 4,200 Mt of oil extracted per year, mining 0.1Mt of lithium is not an urgent environmental or social issue.
(In case you were thinking about cobalt, LFP batteries use no cobalt and will reach 50% market share in the next few years.)
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