Battery breakthrough as 99.99% of lithium extracted from old cells

New recycling method offers environmentally friendly way to deal with increasing e-waste from old smartphones and electric cars

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I don't see an estimate for cost. If it's still higher, this would be a perfect use of subsidies to make recycling far cheaper than new material to help drive supply and demand.
I've heard a lot of "battery breakthroughs" would love to see "battery breakthrough implementations"
- Sodium-ion batteries though have been a big success in both implementation and development.
- You don't think lithium batteries were a breakthrough?
  
  They were sure, decades ago
- 3 to 7 years. Promise.
- still waiting for those glass battieries they said were nearly production ready.
This is wonderful news.
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It's as if the food additives and mining industry¹,² brought forth an intelligent junkyard child.

¹s.a. Urban mining ²cf. "Glycine Leaching Technology"

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