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Re:The Race to Crack Lithium Ion Recycling by jeffreyrogers on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:00AM (#25254391)
> Lithium is a mine once, use forever resource. It's an element. It will cost energy to recycle it

It's not at all obvious to me that recycling is easy/practical. E.g. recycling the alloy from alloy steel is not done because it is too costly to separate. I'm not sure why batteries would be much different.

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Re:The Race to Crack Lithium Ion Recycling by SV_BubbleTime on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:19AM (#25254620)
> It's not at all obvious to me that recycling is easy/practical.

It’s not. Other poster is just ignoring reality that it’s currently cheaper to use new lithium than to recover it.

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