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Bacteria helping to extract rare metals from old batteries in boost for green tech (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Instead of recycling rare metals from batteries (which is notoriously difficult), try constructing your batteries without rare metals. It is theoretically possible, sodium ion batteries set an example for this. Yet they are still under development. Link

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