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Beyond-Time t1_jegq5ku wrote

Reply to comment by hunter5226 in Inexpensive and environmentally friendly mechanochemical recycling process recovers 70% of lithium from batteries by chrisdh79

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/24/1123564599/chile-lithium-mining-atacama-desert

This area is largely uninhabitable for people, has few wildlife (note: not 0) and is not suitable for growing crops or housing any reserves. It's about as environmentally friendly as it gets. Now, if you consider evaporating water off of brine in a high altitude, uninhabitable desert as environmentally destructive, and would use the same term for destroying forests with much bio-diversity, than the term is meaningless.

Point being, this is where a large chunk of the worlds lithium comes from and it's a desert, and I would consider it non-destructive.

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Beyond-Time t1_jeeuqro wrote

Reply to comment by CaptainToker in Inexpensive and environmentally friendly mechanochemical recycling process recovers 70% of lithium from batteries by chrisdh79

In their current state, you aren't pulling any significant amount of weight any significant distance in any reasonable time with that. Not to knock EV bikes, I think they're great. But this isn't that move away from lithium that other other guy spoke about. If this process is as good as the article states it to be, then we might never really need to move away from lithium for a very long time.

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Beyond-Time t1_j9sn1vm wrote

Reply to comment by Please_Log_In in Researchers have found that a Parkinson’s-linked mutation in a gene called Endophilin A1 blocks the process by which the body and the brain recycle cell waste. Without the process, autophagy, toxic debris builds up and neurons die. This discovery could change the focus of Parkinson's treatments. by QldBrainInst

There is truth for your statement, but the is the wrong thread. There is no lifestyle change that will fix Parkinson's. Perhaps you're a bit account, who knows

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Beyond-Time t1_j9ag2cv wrote

Reply to comment by SoBeefy in TIL that, as recently as 34 years ago, water from the Great Salt Lake was pumped into the desert so that the lake water level would not get too high. by SoBeefy

California, due to their climate, is the perfect place to grow many crops. The amount of food produced there is unbelievable, and the water is important in that respect. I'm sure there's much waste but most people who want to divert water away from California simply don't understand the vast amount of the country's food that is produced there. 75% of Arizona shouldn't exist if you want to talk about water use.

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Beyond-Time t1_j970pgd wrote

Reply to comment by Rrraou in Scientists create carbon nanotubes out of plastic waste using an energy-efficient, low-cost, low-emissions process. Compared to commercial methods for carbon nanotube production that are being used right now, ours uses about 90% less energy and generates 90%-94% less carbon dioxide by Wagamaga

Perhaps. I've grown tired of every revolutionary technology disappearing because it's too expensive, material intense, or impractical. I tend to forget that yes, some do, in fact, make it into production devices.

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Beyond-Time t1_j96i0m5 wrote

Reply to comment by IPutThisUsernameHere in Scientists create carbon nanotubes out of plastic waste using an energy-efficient, low-cost, low-emissions process. Compared to commercial methods for carbon nanotube production that are being used right now, ours uses about 90% less energy and generates 90%-94% less carbon dioxide by Wagamaga

I mean, this is basically the only comment needed here. Same with the monthly battery revolutionizing technology discovered that goes nowhere.

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Beyond-Time t1_j20haig wrote

Reply to comment by Lovely_Tuna in Kids realize what you did for them and appreciate it once they have kids of their own. Spouses or SOs don’t realize or appreciate it until you’re gone. by Yourfaceis-23

"I don't condone hitting as a means of discipline as there are better ways to get your point across"

Who are you trying to fool? Hitting is not an answer to unruly children, and they don't always listen to reason. Why are you acting blind to my post?

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Beyond-Time t1_j1zjsna wrote

Reply to comment by JohhnyTheKid in Kids realize what you did for them and appreciate it once they have kids of their own. Spouses or SOs don’t realize or appreciate it until you’re gone. by Yourfaceis-23

It's clear you don't have children. I don't condone hitting as a means of discipline as there are more effective ways of getting your point across. If you think all kids can just be told, or understand reason, you are way off the mark. Rude awakening when/if you do end up having kids.

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Beyond-Time t1_ispcbhe wrote

Reply to comment by ThisistheInfiniteIs in Nation’s First Nuclear-Powered Clean Hydrogen Production Announced. The Nine Mile Point Generating Station, the oldest operating U.S. nuclear power plant, will soon house the nation’s first nuclear-powered clean hydrogen production facility by chopchopped

It is a non-issue. The vaults currently in service have had little to no issue containing the waste, simple as. This is indisputable, no matter how much you drink the BP/Shale kool-aid. Now, when you compare the relative effects of nuclear waste storage and ash pits and CO2 release from fossil fuels, you'd probably not comment on the topic again. Nuclear is the way forward.

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Beyond-Time t1_isokwf0 wrote

Reply to comment by globeflyman in Nation’s First Nuclear-Powered Clean Hydrogen Production Announced. The Nine Mile Point Generating Station, the oldest operating U.S. nuclear power plant, will soon house the nation’s first nuclear-powered clean hydrogen production facility by chopchopped

Nuclear waste storage is a non-issue. I am impressed how well the oil and natural gas companies have made people hate nuclear when it is quite literally the best base-load, 0 carbon emission energy we can get.

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