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EV battery recycling has a math problem (www.npr.org)
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For some electric vehicle batteries, it costs more to recycle them than they're worth. That creates all kinds of problems, which a new Colorado law aims to solve.

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Which is bad because... it's in their name

They're not actually rare, the name is historical.

[–] Sir_Ious@feddit.org 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Rare isn't a binary quality, true. But the name isn't meaningless either. They're rare enough that superpowers compete over mining sites.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

To be pedantic, rich deposits of them are reasonably rare. But that's mostly due to capitalism making it unviable to process lower concentration deposits. The elements are otherwise pretty common.