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Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

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Re: Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

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Post by yahootube »

This is because of expiring patents which create an artificial inflation of businesses' durable market value for the incumbent allowing them to monopolize the market via supply scarcity. Naturally there would have been more recycling the entire time if it were not restricted by patents.

Re: Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

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Post by pfdietz »

yahootube wrote: post #2

This is because of expiring patents which create an artificial inflation of businesses' durable market value for the incumbent allowing them to monopolize the market via supply scarcity. Naturally there would have been more recycling the entire time if it were not restricted by patents.

Or, less conspiratorially, it's because the volume of batteries that need recycling has been steadily growing.

Re: Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

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Post by manoDev »

pfdietz wrote: post #3
yahootube wrote: post #2

This is because of expiring patents which create an artificial inflation of businesses' durable market value for the incumbent allowing them to monopolize the market via supply scarcity. Naturally there would have been more recycling the entire time if it were not restricted by patents.

Or, less conspiratorially, it's because the volume of batteries that need recycling has been steadily growing.

Both can be true.

Re: Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

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Post by infecto »

yahootube wrote: post #2

This is because of expiring patents which create an artificial inflation of businesses' durable market value for the incumbent allowing them to monopolize the market via supply scarcity. Naturally there would have been more recycling the entire time if it were not restricted by patents.

Which patents were the biggest hold backs in the recycling industry? I am curious how the patent landscape looks today compared to a decade ago. Seems like it would be exploding in more recent history.

Re: Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

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Post by mhb »

pfdietz wrote: post #3
yahootube wrote: post #2

This is because of expiring patents which create an artificial inflation of businesses' durable market value for the incumbent allowing them to monopolize the market via supply scarcity. Naturally there would have been more recycling the entire time if it were not restricted by patents.

Or, less conspiratorially, it's because the volume of batteries that need recycling has been steadily growing.

Or because the possibility of profits incentivized invention.

Re: Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

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Post by outside1234 »

mhb wrote: post #6
pfdietz wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or, less conspiratorially, it's because the volume of batteries that need recycling has been steadily growing.

Or because the possibility of profits incentivized invention.

All three of these theories can be true

Re: Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

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Post by halestock »

yahootube wrote: post #2

This is because of expiring patents which create an artificial inflation of businesses' durable market value for the incumbent allowing them to monopolize the market via supply scarcity. Naturally there would have been more recycling the entire time if it were not restricted by patents.

Sorry what?
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