SeaJ@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoUS grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square46linkfedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down10
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minus-squareArkouda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoCool story. How do we pull rare earth minerals, needed for batteries, from the ground?
minus-squareschizo@forum.uncomfortable.businesslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoTypically not by injecting toxic carcinogens into the ground to do so, like we do with fracking. Also I’ve not heard of any strip mining activities that turn a town’s only water supply into something that’s flammable, but I perhaps missed that? Or the ongoing incidents of child and adult cancer caused by this itty bitty little toxic waste issue.
Cool story. How do we pull rare earth minerals, needed for batteries, from the ground?
Typically not by injecting toxic carcinogens into the ground to do so, like we do with fracking.
Also I’ve not heard of any strip mining activities that turn a town’s only water supply into something that’s flammable, but I perhaps missed that?
Or the ongoing incidents of child and adult cancer caused by this itty bitty little toxic waste issue.