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Someone in the chip design lab at ETH Zurich (IIS) wrote a script to get metal deposited during the chip fabrication process, without causing short-circuits. The script would take …

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It's unlikely they will end up in a landfill. A completely spent battery has cobalt, nickel, manganese, lithium, copper and steel which can fetch around $1500 on average. The trick…

It's going to be hard to push regulation to specifically make it easier to dissassemble them. However, regulation that makes the manufacturer responsible throughout the life of the…

No joke, cutting it out makes the batteries explode if they are not deeply discharged.

Recycling in the case of a battery means shredding it, and reducing it into a so-called "black mass", a powder rich in cobalt and nickel. What I've seen is a lot of premature recyc…

The $2000USD figure is approximately correct. We've run the numbers to be between $800-3200 depending on the weight of the battery, and how difficult it is to disassemble. 3200 for…