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.
Comment on AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium
Pirasp@lemmy.world 10 months agoBeing 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.
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Going to argue it isn’t as bad as shale / oil sands projects.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 10 months 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?
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Not sure what you are even saying?
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 10 months ago
All of the lithium (metals) are recycled. Some of the other materials can’t be or aren’t recycled