Scientists use whey protein sponges to extract gold from computer parts, like motherboards — the process is 50X less expensive than the cost of gold and eco-friendly

alphacyberranger · 2 months ago

Scientists use whey protein sponges to extract gold from computer parts, like motherboards — the process is 50X less expensive than the cost of gold and eco-friendly

@Pilferjinx · 2 months ago

Is it better than just burning/burying it?

@spittingimage · 2 months ago

Some of the chemicals that go into making circuit boards are pretty nasty too. When I was learning about them, arsenic was a component of semiconductors. I don’t know much about the chemistry, but I think having that in your air or leaching into your groundwater would be bad news.