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guardians of trees, julian, his sons and the dog secrets of war, starts july 27th. on d, w, the, this little part of good was once and electric. com. that's where you can forward with all that the know you have all the good stuff. coble, nickel, mangan, these and lift him in here. and the idea is to turn these raw materials into a new venture where you get companies promise they can make this work recovering more than 90 percent of materials from all to lithium ion batteries and recycling them into new ones. and that's great news because we have more and more electric costs hitting the streets. so we need more and more batteries. and so those we need more and more resources. and recycling is better than mining new materials and

throwing them away. but how does it work exactly, and does it work at scale? to find out, we initially hope to fill them with a battery, restart, and company in europe. but apart from releasing promo for this like this, the industry seems pretty secretive. thankfully the recipes are much more open, which is why we came to the same class to hear the focus is on metal recovery, just the perfect fit for us. but before we go in, i'll give you a quick rundown of how a cop at 3 tons and to a small piece of this, there are several ways, but this is one of them. first, the battery arrives at a recycling facility and gets discharged after it's taken apart. this is done by hand, which means it's expensive, but we'll get to that later. the battery then gets shredded. the liquid pods get expected and different methods of grinding and sifting leaky with these base materials, metals from the battery, housing,

plastic and the bits of aluminum and copper. but the stuff that everybody is after is this black mass. this contains all the valuable materials, like lithium coal, both nickel and manganese, but also graphite. and that's why it's black. and today we're going to get all of them out of that, but that's not my job. but there's, this is new. come to a doctor for research. i add to close. todd and his chemical lab technician might, could come in at the university as part of a larger research group that is trying to figure out how to do this on a larger scale or. and by the way, this is what the end goal of this process is. supposed to look like, same metal foil, ready to go into a battery again. so what are we doing now with of light loss? so now we're going into the leasing operation with the blackness. so we're bringing all the valuable metals we have on the blackness into the solution. the metal way off today is called to bring that out. mike is using so far it as a, as

a solvent. pretty nasty stuff. if it would touch i was going, it would instantly costs a via buttons. we're using a process called hydro metallurgical recycling. it's a low temperature process, but only use a small amounts of energy compared to other batch where you're selecting method. so for it as it seems, a toxic ends, the bench lights up, but this entire process is perfect. so getting rid of impurities that are still in the black model. after all, the shredding and sifting mainly aluminium and copper as a 2nd step, the black mas also gets filtered. lucas best throughout the entire recycling process, they are able to remove 95 percent of impurities on a scale, a little bit bigger. the whole process looks like this, massive pulse of solving in which black mosque is process. so from what we're seeing here, the exhaust gas a seem to be a bit of an issue was always in with there. we're having kind of kind of and small

issue of this. so depending on the, so we'll see all leasing the for example, in our case. so for like us that you might have some evolution of h to this. so, and maybe also some if age of formation. so there's this kind of problematic and definitely something you need to look into when you're going into i'm good. and we also have the assets of solven's and the leads and stuff like that. and there's also not that great for the environment. is there a way to approach that differently? actually there at the moment upcoming research as far organic us with some of the reading assets which are also very vital compet table of the environment. so normally without quite homeless, but the research is in a way, um, way not the funds side of the stadium method is not. and if you don't work cautiously, you do get headlines like this. some gill high tax factory in hungary recorded high levels of cancer, causing heavy metals, india, and had difficulties filtering it's exhaust gases by,

by environmental benefits of recycling. so many things to consider, and we're not even halfway done. our black mazda is now edits to a nother sullivan that will help bring out the cult in this chemical cocktail. and it's pretty colorful from greenish to dark blue. it's like so blue, it almost looks like ink because, like right that. busy and it's this dark blue pod actually that the cold sticks to to get a higher concentration of coal both. we need to do another round of this. this time we're going from blue to red. now that's the color change. so now the cobalt is in the dock, a red as pa spot to be able to use the metal in new batteries. you of course need to get it out of the sullivan. you can do that by hazing it up as you would at industry scales or a little quick kind of small left like this was yet another solvent. really can see

the crystals a lots here that even accumulates about the bottom. like how much cold is that? now from the bite mass isn't here. well, actually of, of this technique we are able to recover more than 99 percent of the cold. what are the biggest challenges in ops getting these process is what makes it so hot? you know, of course the, you and we also run the run through the problem that and let scale we are only doing the some basics payment. so step by step, very common study, but in industry you went through the money. so you have, you are having a continuous process and handling and continuous process, move all the impurities and all the process steps and small things you need considered. it's kind of challenging because that's what other researches say as well recovering more than 90 percent of materials is possible. but this requires optimal conditions, which you don't always find in the real well, if the recovery rates drop, the business case becomes even more difficult. and that's what it comes down to with recycling. one thing is to make it work technologically. a completely

different thing is to make money from it. and that's where the industry faces its biggest challenges. remember how i said that batteries have to be taken apart by and that's because every manufacturer boots them a little bit differently. this means machines con, currently do all of the job and that drives up costs. so does the most expensive part of the process, the hydro metallurgical recycling, and the as another effect that makes it hard to turn a profit. the more difficult part comes in from one of the to the, to in the market because it is in the middle of market. you have a lot of speculation and you can see for instance, this in price is one year back. i don't know the exact number by heart, but one year back. i think it was a times how you have 10 times. 5 inches. i crazy prices. this is un quotes from b a s f. they just opened up that prototype. black mosse, refining plant in germany. this yeah, implants of scale up the technology further attended to you in the market. this is

a stress to everybody who minds who cycles. right now the prices are quite new, which is a challenge for everybody who wants to reduce investment. basically if price is a high recyclers make more money, but the question is, how much consulting firm mackenzie expects recyclers to make around $800.00 to $1600.00 per ton of tax rate. it's really about how much do you pay when you acquire the material. this is hands, eric melanie. he's been analyzing the end of last batch remarket for yes. so if you get material free and then you process it, then sell it to market price, it will usually make a lot of money. and you will most probably make more than many mining operations. but if we're psyched us, what need to pay for the batteries? the economics get shaky. this could mean recycling is more expensive than just

mining new materials. and this isn't the only issue for commercial size pond and novel challenge. other materials used in the battery itself. it could be a whole bunch of combinations, lithium, ion phosphate, lithium, manganese oxide, lithium, the cold, cold of many um, or lithium, nickel, manganese, cold. and the last one even comes in different compositions. 121-216-2222 or aids. 2121. it's the wild, west valdez when it comes to bed 3 manufacturing, which makes it more difficult to build, tailored commercial plots. you have to build them for the largest possible amount of the individual material, like because i think of a long one, for instance, the ration to, to the other components. you have to have a really huge make a separate. whereas if you're having a 111, you have to be able to precipitate

a lot of cool, but then you have to have a use separate of course, you have to be pretty robust and that's of course driving costs, which means that some other nice is from some gonna be worth it to use, predicting costs of associates probably be wrong. because every time i go to the bottom line is in the real world, recycling is much, much harder then on paper a. another problem for recycling batteries doesn't have anything to do with the recycling process itself. but with the missing feedstock, electric car batteries last longer than previously thought. busy and off so that they get used for all kinds of other things like storing renewable energy, which means that there's many batteries to be recycled on a lot scale recycling batteries. there's no issue at all 9 to 9 percent colewell. it's because it's insane. but on the commercial scale, not so much and for that for example, what are we going to do with

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