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[-] Vathsade@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago

We need to accept a premium for the cleanest and safest baseload generation we have.

[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

You can build a lot of batteries for 35 billion. And those don't produce waste that you have to store for millennia.

[-] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

Lmao and what about battery waste when they're past their lifespan in 15 years?

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Lmao and what about battery waste when they’re past their lifespan in 15 years?

Well, if you mean Lithium batteries, you grind up the dead batteries and make new Lithium batteries from that. Its not like lithium is burned up never to be used again with these. Here's the lithium and cobalt extracted from recycled lithium batteries after all the plastic and other metals are removed:

You can watch the whole process from dead battery to extracted materials here, if you want.

But that's today's tech. Sodium batteries are quickly taking over for grid scale storage. Sodium you might know as the 7th most abundant element on Earth, so we're not running out of that any time soon.

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Oh boy, why are these sorts of comments always upvoted by people who obviously don't know shit?
First Lithium batteries are often reusable for secondary purposes when they don't meet original specifications, and then they can be recycled pretty efficiently.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

Some modern nuclear reactor models produce less long-term waste than batteries.

[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 10 points 7 months ago

Hypothetically. None of those are anywhere near to actually being built.

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