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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by myoon on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @06:31PM (#28924587)
Probably would still be an issue with contaminating the aluminum with carbon and possibly other impurities. You'd probably need some other process to purify the aluminum afterwards, which likely makes it too expensive.
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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by jacquesm on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @08:22PM (#28925392)
But that process by itself is always going to be more energy efficient than winning the aluminum from bauxite ore.

Of course you need a purification step after dealing with scrap, but aluminum scrap, even when contaminated is quite valuable, basically the price is a function of how pure it already is.

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