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minus-squareDogWater@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·1 year agoYou can’t just say battery. There’s tons of energy storage that isn’t chemical based. Thermal sand batteries, pumping hydro up a hill, flywheel energy storage, etc. Energy storage doesn’t inherently mean pollution
minus-squareDogWater@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoYeah, the cobalt and lithium is quite nasty to mine
minus-squareMango@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoYou gotta say what kind of battery when you make a comment like that. A bottle of pressurized gas is a battery. Not very polluting though.
minus-squareMango@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoRight. That’s why this method is used at large scale in salt mines.
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You can’t just say battery. There’s tons of energy storage that isn’t chemical based. Thermal sand batteries, pumping hydro up a hill, flywheel energy storage, etc.
Energy storage doesn’t inherently mean pollution
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Yeah, the cobalt and lithium is quite nasty to mine
You gotta say what kind of battery when you make a comment like that. A bottle of pressurized gas is a battery. Not very polluting though.
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Right. That’s why this method is used at large scale in salt mines.