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		jjoonathan on Oct 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The race to grab all the UK’s lithium before it’s ... Exactly. You don't burn lithium into the atmosphere. Even depleted cells still have all the lithium they were created with. The process of getting lithium out of depleted cells and ready for new cells is a rapidly scaling industry at the moment.

shadilay on Oct 18, 2021 [–]

Furthermore refining old battery material into new feedstock is far less energy intensive than getting it out of the ground in the first place.

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