time2roll wrote:
colliehauler wrote:
What about battery recycling and production on a massive scale and environmental concerns?
All this will evolve as the issue grows.
These concerns have never stopped progress. Still no permanent solution to radioactive waste. Have not seen a restoration solution after strip mining coal. Even the coal ash is an issue to get rid of. Current vehicles seem to often rot for decades before they get crushed and recycled or sent to a land fill.
Currently I know of no stockpile of spent lithium EV batteries creating an issue.
All the laptop batteries must be currently going somewhere....
You need to look at the strip (coal) mines in Eastern Kansas restoration area. Unlike the lead mines in southeast KS and Northern OK that were so polluted the only solution for the EPA was to condemn and purchase entire towns.
Big difference between laptop batteries and massive production and disposal on a global scale. Still didn't address the mining issue for the materials to make the batteries.
Nuclear waste is a prime example of what was thought as the ideal clean power as well.
I know that heavy metals are extremely toxic to the human body.
