Comment on AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium

• Pirasp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Being better than one of the most destructive industries ever is not a high bar. But the most effective way to harvest lithium remains an open pit mine, which are arguably worse than literally anything else.

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  • AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    which are arguably worse than literally anything else.

    Going to argue it isn’t as bad as shale / oil sands projects.

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I thought it was all or almost all of the metals?

      There’s other non metals that wouldn’t be but all the lithium is for example?

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      • AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not sure what you are even saying?

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  • AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Making an improvement for something that can be recycled and thus should REDUCE over time is a a MASSIVE improvement over doing nothing and bitching about it.

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• magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The less we need of it, the better either way.

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  • AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It can be recycled… Unlike the oil and gas used up in ICE cars.

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• DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t know who told you that being second worst is a flex, but it’s not.

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