• @Daft_ish
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    210 months ago

    Batteries are more than likely another type of pollution. I’m sure they can and will be recycled but just like the problem with our current capacity to recycle things it probably becomes untenable (guessing).

    The state just needs to find ways to convert that energy into something else. I suggest desalinating sea water and pumping it up stream.

    • @DogWater
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      1810 months ago

      You can’t just say battery. There’s tons of energy storage that isn’t chemical based. Thermal sand batteries, pumping hydro up a hill, flywheel energy storage, etc.

      Energy storage doesn’t inherently mean pollution

      • @Daft_ish
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        710 months ago

        I can only assume op meant a lithium ion battery. Based on context.

        • @DogWater
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          310 months ago

          Yeah, the cobalt and lithium is quite nasty to mine

    • @Mango
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      610 months ago

      You gotta say what kind of battery when you make a comment like that. A bottle of pressurized gas is a battery. Not very polluting though.

      • @Daft_ish
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        210 months ago

        Sure you can buy a compressor and some air tanks. I imagine the turbine you need to purchase might be midly expensive. The real issue I think would be the size of the pressure vessel you would need to make it worth it.

        • @Mango
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          110 months ago

          Right. That’s why this method is used at large scale in salt mines.