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Yosemite_Sam1
Apr 29, 2021Explorer
wanderingaimlessly wrote:
I'm sorry you were not taught to reason through that article.
If you were able you would understand that even the article I posted that was promoting recycling Li-ion batteries was lamenting the facts that they ,,,,
Are not recycled in large quanities only 5% of them in the US in 2019
Will see drastic increases in volume due to electric cars starting to age out.
The smelting processes are exremely toxic to the air because all other elements are burned off and Sulphur is often found where cobalt is. (ever hear of acid rain)
Many that are recycled are handled by re smelting the units causing the same emmission problems that they did when first smelted.
Those not smelted are handled by chemicals such as sulfuric acid.
Cobalt, nickel, manganese, and other metals found in batteries can readily leak from the casing of buried batteries and contaminate soil and groundwater,
These are just a few of the problems being created by "clean energy". Something better needs to be found, these are not the answer, no matter how much money Musk and some others make from it.
Now I'm sorrier that it must have a problem in understanding.:E
So let me write slow and ask again to support your premise that the new EV/battery technology is worst than the ICE/petroleeum/oil industry it is displacing.
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