This type of content would never cross my path normally , way outside my skillset. But it is stil interesting and exactly why I keep coming back to HN.
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
#22This is the greatest fear. Take the example of simple AA batteries. As time and technology progressed, we didn't get safer, easily reusable and rechargable batteries and infra to charge them and safely dispose when they eventually met its end life. Instead we (India) got dirt cheap throwaway batteries everywhere that came bundled with every item or toy we buy... I think economics and incentives are in such a way that…
Climate change due to CO2 is going to be far more catastrophic.
Re: Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade
#23This is the greatest fear. Take the example of simple AA batteries. As time and technology progressed, we didn't get safer, easily reusable and rechargable batteries and infra to charge them and safely dispose when they eventually met its end life. Instead we (India) got dirt cheap throwaway batteries everywhere that came bundled with every item or toy we buy... I think economics and incentives are in such a way that…
Climate change due to CO2 is going to be far more catastrophic.
So India should just keep acting as the waste dump for Europe, US and China because the alternative would be even worse?
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Climate change due to CO2 is going to be far more catastrophic.
So India should just keep acting as the waste dump for Europe, US and China because the alternative would be even worse?
No, India should ban nonrechargeable batteries - import and sale. Why is it other countries' fault what India chooses to bring into and sell in India?
Re: Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade
#26This is the greatest fear. Take the example of simple AA batteries. As time and technology progressed, we didn't get safer, easily reusable and rechargable batteries and infra to charge them and safely dispose when they eventually met its end life. Instead we (India) got dirt cheap throwaway batteries everywhere that came bundled with every item or toy we buy... I think economics and incentives are in such a way that…
Most CO2 in the air stays there for geological time frames. Local pollution from badly managed landfills is unlikely to collapse global ecosystems.
CO2 is much more serious
Re: Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
In which case the market is working as intended.
If all three are true then the market is 2/3 working as intended and 1/3 held back by patents that aren't being licensed out enough.
Alternatively, if all three are true, 1/3 are held back because of the lack of incentive to develop an invention.
Re: Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade
#28Disclaimer: I'm one of the founder.
We're designing a cool repairable (and fireproof!) connected ebike battery at https://infinite-battery.com
If you're an e-bike geek, let's talk!
Re: Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
YahooTube’s comment is heavily implying that the market systems in-place stifled invention via patent restrictions.
Yes, but isn’t that working as intended?
As we can see by this thread… It’s heavily debated as to whether the intentions we should be following are those of long-dead forbears, or the will of the people, and in the latter, which people.
Re: Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Climate change due to CO2 is going to be far more catastrophic.
So India should just keep acting as the waste dump for Europe, US and China because the alternative would be even worse?
India should stop being India.
It would be unfair of me to speculate why but India is one of the few countries I know of that does not truly advance the population as it grows.