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The materials you get from recycling 1 kWh of old lithium ion batteries can be used to make more than 1 kWh of lithium ion batteries.
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Batteries are actually a highly concentrated source of battery materials.
Battery materials make up about 100% of the materials in a battery.
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This closed-loop system is exactly what we need for a sustainable energy future. Great to see recycling tech advancing in this area
‘"By 2042, China will no longer need to mine new mineral materials because of its mature battery recycling market." - CEO of CATL
Been saying that for years.
The tech becomes more 'element efficient', as we learn better chemistries and methods.
Eventually, if you recycle an old battery pack, you'll get a new pack for free.
Is it like demolishing a high rise building and recycling all the concrete and steel to make the same building plus a few single family homes with the leftovers?
Unfortunately, recycling is not yet viable and it does not account for what is not recyclable in the mix. The good news is batteries are not necessary since RE isn't, so the recycle load will be much smaller than projected.
Data centres are power hungry - can geothermal energy answer the call? Earths Energy seems to think so.
…assuming you have the energy to do so. We are contracting our net energy supply, and so cannot.
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This is only the beginning of the battery revolution. We will get a resilient and affordable energy grid with solar, wind, and storage everywhere.
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Lithium ion battery prices fall to their lowest point ever - Benchmark @benchmarkmin
•Benchmark Lithium ion Battery Cell prices have fallen to $66.5$/kWh in September (Benchmark’s Global Weighted Average); falling just shy of 20% this year
•The biggest story is LFP
Humans tend to underestimate the pace of innovation and overestimate the inertia of incumbent technologies.
Clean energy technologies have scaled much more rapidly than predicted by modellers.
Lithium ion battery prices fall to their lowest point ever - Benchmark
•Benchmark Lithium ion Battery Cell prices have fallen to $66.5$/kWh in September (Benchmark’s Global Weighted Average); falling just shy of 20% this year
•The biggest story is LFPShow more
I don't think anyone is ready for just how solar is going to dominate. Everywhere...
nature.com/articles/s4146
