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https://newatlas.com/energy/lithium-battery-recapture/
While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there’s another source to mine: existing batteries that no longer work. A new technique could now make that process economically viable.
I have a hard time believing it’s cheaper than from my local lithium guy.
Yeah, but with him you gotta go over to his shitty apartment and let him charge a bit to make the deal
Idk where they got the picture from but 4300mah in aa size would be insane. Thats like 2.5 times as much capacity as how much the best ones provide currently.
It’s just a stock photo used since at least 2017 that appears to have had the 4300mah text added on more recently.
Was gonna say maybe they’re 18650s but it Def says AA on them. I’m gonna go with it’s a made up / AI-generated image
Yeah probably tho i kinda wish they existed lol
Looks like AI to me. Also, those would most likely be NiMH batteries, which AFAIK don't have any lithium.
The way its packaged with the indent at the top would make it a lithium cell but yeah its fake anyways
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 21 minutes ago
That means battery prices will be coming down, right? Right?