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Johnny blaze
November 3, 2023 at 11:42 am
First
Alexandru Gheorghe
November 3, 2023 at 12:41 pm
Indeed.
Taki Elddine
November 3, 2023 at 11:42 am
Great
062 Sanzida Suma
November 3, 2023 at 11:43 am
Yes
RF XYZ
November 3, 2023 at 11:43 am
From Bangladesh ????????
062 Sanzida Suma
November 3, 2023 at 11:47 am
I know scientific information
Barlowjmb
November 3, 2023 at 11:47 am
I throw all my batteries into the ocean, for the eels.
I’m doing my part!
Lee Jagger
November 3, 2023 at 11:59 am
I hope that Elon musk jumps on this bandwagon. There are so many dead Tesla batteries that they don’t know what to do with yet.
webcabbage
November 4, 2023 at 5:14 pm
Look up redwood materials
Anthonie Weyland
November 3, 2023 at 12:08 pm
So another Redwood Materials, good to know more company’s are getting involved. ????♻️
spookycanuck1
November 3, 2023 at 12:12 pm
And just two days ago two battery recycling plants in Canada shut down. Another reason why we are not ready for widespread adoption of EVs. It’s going to cost billions, if not trillions, to prepare our electric grids over the next decade or two.
Ziploc
November 3, 2023 at 3:11 pm
Boo hoo hoo, we are not ready for new technology because we didn’t prepare. That’s not a good reason to not prepare.
Linus Holmgren
November 5, 2023 at 4:23 pm
But like one month earlier Northvolt (the company she is working for) announced they will be opening their own factory in Canada
34TM3 Gaming
November 3, 2023 at 12:13 pm
She is absolutely right. Fossil fuels is already killing our planet. We need to do things safely for the advancement of clean energy. ❤
Akira
November 3, 2023 at 1:43 pm
But almost everything is made from fossil fuel. I don’t it’s even possible to have clean energy w/o fossil fuels which defeats the purpose lol
greeny
November 3, 2023 at 12:15 pm
Y’all gotta take that Sue Klebold talk down straight up a delusional woman playing victim and hiding from accountability. That talk is not intellectual in any way and it’s not educational, it’s the opposite. It’s manipulating the truth and the past to avoid responsibility, and its disrespect to the victims. Right your own wrongs and take the damn talk down.
Wayne Alan
November 3, 2023 at 12:51 pm
There is no climate or environmental crisis. Next.
FerRR
November 3, 2023 at 3:30 pm
Wait till bread hits 20 bucks a loaf, you’ll see where your belief stands then.
Wayne Alan
November 3, 2023 at 3:49 pm
@FerRR that’s a crisis of government corruption.
Dame Anvil
November 3, 2023 at 1:11 pm
00:08 ???? Batteries play a crucial role in enabling the use of clean energy by allowing its storage and transportation.
01:09 ⛏ Historically, we have extracted resources like oil without considering long-term consequences, contributing to environmental crises.
02:10 ???? Battery manufacturing consumes large amounts of energy and relies on global mining, refining, and complex supply chains.
03:44 ???? Putting battery manufacturing under a renewable energy grid significantly reduces its carbon footprint, but challenges remain in the supply chain.
04:45 ???? Sustainable mining and recycling can greatly reduce the environmental impact of battery production.
05:42 ♻ A recycling process can recover materials from used batteries, creating a circular battery economy.
07:44 ⚙ The circular economy approach should be extended to other industries, such as wind turbines and solar panels, for a sustainable transformation.
08:39 ???? Implementing recycling and traceability systems is not only environmentally beneficial but also economically profitable, as materials retain their value over time.
Ziploc
November 3, 2023 at 3:13 pm
Nailed it, and when you start with a old battery you already have all the resources needed to make a new one. Batteries, solar panels etc can be recycled, we just aren’t up to speed with the infrastructure to do it.
MaPowey
November 3, 2023 at 1:23 pm
this is the first time ive clicked on a ted talk in a while. seems actually important for once. she seemed a little nervous (who care’s though) but the content of the speech was great.
MM D807
November 3, 2023 at 2:14 pm
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MM D807
November 3, 2023 at 2:20 pm
Right – burned fossil is lost forever!!! It is in the atmosphere- no Chance too recycle it like Akkus ????
Andy Cordy
November 3, 2023 at 2:34 pm
Bring on the black mass!
Freddie Vee
November 3, 2023 at 4:04 pm
As long as slave labor is used to mine the minerals needed to make batteries, recycling will not be economically feasible.
WB159
November 3, 2023 at 7:50 pm
Amazing! We are building shredder for all kinds of material. I think we should concentrate more on batteries
Toby O'Hara
November 3, 2023 at 11:02 pm
This is a very important message, I’m glad we are talking about it. I hope we also start to implement mechanical batteries, which will ease pressure on mining. Mechanical batteries include, weights and pulley, pumped air, pumped hydro, flywheel, and springs.
anil kumar Patel
November 4, 2023 at 4:04 am
❤
Hải Nguyên Land Nha Trang
November 4, 2023 at 5:42 am
Its a great speech, many thanks 🙂
Garo Gary Voskorian
November 4, 2023 at 8:41 am
What’s killing our planet is not the CO2 emission.
People in this civilization they’re killing themselves
Samuel Zev
November 4, 2023 at 8:56 am
Battery recycling is already done by some companies but it hasn’t been done in large scale by everyone because it is costly and that it’s not being funded properly by the government and also soecial interest groups like oil companies feed false information to the poorly educated to think that it is not possible when in fact it is. Take a look at conservatives in the US, they believe that windmills and other renewables can’t power a country but norway and Iceland proved them wrong because they are nearly renewable powered
FXPear Studio
November 4, 2023 at 1:23 pm
We are going to “mine” the ocean floor to keep up with battery demands. Finally killing our survival in long term.
Adigerla Prasad
November 4, 2023 at 10:21 pm
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Jim Baker
November 5, 2023 at 8:35 am
People tend to gloss over areas they shouldn’t gloss over in their pursuit of a pushing an idea. In this case the idea is how its great to have batteries and run the world on electricity. The elephant in the room is how are we going to generate the electricity to power all these vehicles. The fact is that the electrical grids can not handle running the world on electric cars. And more electric cars means more oil, and coal burning.
Jimmy
November 5, 2023 at 9:15 am
We’ll have to downsize significantly
Stefan Albu
November 6, 2023 at 1:50 am
What’s the hurry womaaan? What’s the hurry? Beeeee theere……..You The GIRL
Nauce_key_randomized
November 6, 2023 at 6:21 pm
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cybersekkin
November 7, 2023 at 5:22 pm
No recycle opperation is terribly efficient. Materials get degraded as they are mixed with impurities. I guess well have to make due until molecular sorters can get invented.