> I don't think recovering 97% vs 95% of 8% of the material is going to change the economics of battery recyling.
Not yet but as more and more EVs reach end of life and these rare earth metals become rarer then it starts make a difference.
Not yet but as more and more EVs reach end of life and these rare earth metals become rarer then it starts make a difference.
A: Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
One sometimes sees the nonsense you are describing there in attempts to smear PV as dirty because it "uses rare earth elements", with a pointer toward dirty REE processing in China. PV does not use the actual REEs; this smear exploits the terminological slovenliness being engaged in here.
I don't believe any honest person in industry would use "rare earth element" to refer to nickel or cobalt.
The question should be whether you were genuinely confused about what the upthread commenter meant by using "these rare earth metals" to refer to battery reactants. You were not. You were just being a pedant. Now you're heaping onto the mistake by (1) calling the upthread comment "nonsense", (2) calling me "dishonest", (3) calling the discussion a "smear", and "slovenly".
Good grief. Can you really just not? There are ways to have this discussion without flinging poo...
"Slovenly" is a precise description of the problem here, up to and including the moral component of that word. "Smear" is also accurate in what I was referring to there: these were clear bad faith attempts to disseminate a falsehood about PV. Your own use was not called a smear, you may just be the kind of useful fool the smear depended on.