Re:Recycling is Garbage (1996)
by vectorjohn on Monday June 22, 2015 @06:11PM
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What? Why would the material be distributed thinly? It's not like they rake it all over the desert. It's extremely concentrated.
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Re:Recycling is Garbage (1996)
by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @08:41AM
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Concentrated ore is essentially solid material of a single nature. Nothing resembling that occurs in landfills. Its a big pile of 'stuff' with pellets of interesting materials every few meters. That's many orders of magnitude too sparse to be worth mechanically mining.