“The process starts with old batteries being separated and burned to strip away non-metal components. What’s left gets crushed into something called black mass. This is essentially a powder packed with recoverable metals. From there, a water-based chemical treatment called hydrometallurgy pulls the lithium out. One clever distinction in this new process is that the recovered lithium hydroxide actually replaces a chemical traditionally used during refining. This cuts the carbon footprint by about 40% compared to older methods.”
Article also said that previous methods got about 45% of the lithium from recycling.
seems like a significant breakthrough
Now we just need to stop big oil propaganda and lobbying from shitting all over EV sales
big oil’s about to start yet another denialism campaigh
I just want the fucking oil mafia to burn at sun’s temperature. They are such a fucking obstacle and disgrace to humanity’s development. Same goes for the big pharma. All the suffering just because of greed for a piece of paper with £/₹/$/€ on it.
Ok angry rant over.
Jerry Rigs Everything Video about lithium recycling to black mass.
Recycled lithium uses 70% less energy than virgin freshly mined lithium, and lithium, like aluminum, in infinitely recyclable.
Assholes like Jeremy Clarkson don’t get this.
Jeremy Clarkson rims goats. Fuckin tail-lifter.
What did I miss?
Nothing. Lemmy being edgy teens.
Edgy leftist teens in particular
you don’t have to be a leftist to hate a filthy child abuser like Jeremy Clarkson… oh wait I forgot… right wing nutjobs are no longer against child abuse. they now publicly defend raping children. nvm.
I just searched for child abuse allegations against Jeremy Clarkson and I’m coming up empty. Can you point me at something concrete?
just going to link all the articles about his scummy behavior.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/27/jeremy-clarkson-makes-shocking-joke-hates-litterers-racists-paedophiles-24535369/amp/ – jokes about abusing kids and shooting people in the head for misdemeanor crimes without trial.
https://iol.co.za/motoring/industry-news/2013-05-09-jeremy-clarkson-sparks-outrage-again/ – mocking the rape of children
https://www.channel4.com/news/jeremy-clarkson-bbc-most-infamous-moments-timeline – a fun little overview some of his biggest hits.
2023 tweet sent by Jeremy Clarkson where he had suggested Meghan Markle be paraded naked through the streets (as depicted in a scene in Game of Thrones), saying he “didn’t see anything wrong” with it.
lots of tweets from Clarkson about doing beastiality and mocking victims of rape… gross stuff.
and while he isn’t in the unredacted parts of the Epstein files… he has a lot of friends and associates in those files. and he only distanced himself from them after being called out for not distancing himself from them. – and we all know… those who support pedophiles tend to later be outed as pedophiles.
He’s an alcoholic Boomer comedian and opines on things he has no clue about.
Terrific. But, I suppose it won’t happen at scale until it’s cheaper than mining.
Because money is everything, and our environment is replaceable. /s
