you 17, your turn, 17. during this past week or so, he was one of the guys who also brought this team so far during just send me final . so i think spain is going to be over the moon again. and then everybody's going to head into the holiday season. well, thank you so much for bringing us up to speed there. that is. and nicole reese for us in the madrid, spain. and thank you for watching the growing up in the refugees. there's a tell us 10 and these are but don't we don't expect much living with them anymore . this is not a good environment, not for me. and not for my children without civil rights and with no prospect.

what can we do? carry on and some last day, a nice the nice you get their hosting for america and babies shuttle stops august 3rd on d w the, this little part of good was once an electric. com. that's where you can. ford went through all that the and know you have all the good stuff, cobalt, nickel, manganese, and lift him in here. and the idea is to turn these raw materials into a new venture where you get companies problem is 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 the best, where you were psyched and company in europe, but the pod from releasing promo for this like this, the industry seems pretty secretive. thankfully the rest of his locks mall opens, which is why we came to too close to here. 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 car battery turns into a small piece of dust. 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. 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. and by the way, this is what the end goal of this process is supposed to look like in metal foils, ready to go into a battery again. so what are we doing now with a black loss? so now we're going into the leasing operation with the blackness. so we have bring all the valuable levels we have on the blackness into solution. the metal way off

today is cold to bring that out. mike is using so far it as a, as a solvent. pretty nasty stuff. if it would touch her, 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 methods. so for it as it's fields are toxic ends the bend to lights up. but this entire process is perfect. so getting rid of impurities that are still in the black model of the old, of shredding and sifting mainly aluminum and cover. as a 2nd step, the black mazda 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 processed. 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 this, it will feel a leasing move, for example, in our case. so for rick, us with you might have some evolution of h to s. 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 sullivan and the leeches 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 researches for organic us with some of the reading assets which are also very vital complet table of the environment. so normally without quite homeless, but the research is in a way, um, way not that of on sort of stadium as it is not. and if you don't work cautiously, you get headlines like this. some gill high tech spec 3 in hungary recorded high levels of cancer, causing heavy metals in the 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 moss is no edits to a nother sullivan that will help bring out the cold 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 with that. and it's this dark blue pod actually that the coal both 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 is passed spot to be able to use the metal in new batteries. you of course need to get it out of the solvent. you can do that by using it up as you would at industry scales or a little quick kind of small up like this with yet another solvent. really can save

the crystals a lots here they even accumulate. so that's the bottom like how much coal is that now from the black mass isn't here. well, actually of, of this technically able to recover more than 99 percent of the cold. what are the biggest challenges in ops getting these processes? what makes it so hard, you know, of course you, it, we also run the run through the problem that and let scale. we are only doing the synthetics payments. so step by step, very common studies, but in industry you want to get the money. so you have that you are having a continuous process and handling and continuous process of, of all the impurities and all the process steps and small things you need to consider. it's kind of challenging this. 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 and 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 that for his 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 hydra metallurgical recycling. and there's another factor 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 in the, in the middle some, i think you have a lot of speculation and you can see for instance, this in price is when you're 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 as you have quotes from b a s f. they just opened up that prototype. black mosse, refining plant in germany. there's yeah,

implants of scale up the technology further. i want to to, to, 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 was 6 investments. 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 batch 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 ends of lock. that's remarket for yes. so if you get material free and then you process it, then sell it to market price. so you able to use it and make a lot of money and you will most probably make more than many mining operations. but if we select those, 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 ponds. another 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, many um for lithium, nickel, manganese, cold. and the last one even comes in different compositions. 121-216-2222 or aids. 2121, and it's the wild west out there when it comes to best 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 race 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 the costs, which means that some other nice is from some university's predicted costs of associates completely wrong. because they might go to it often just the bottom line is in the real world. recycling is much, much honda 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 large scale recycling batteries is no issue at old 99 percent colewell. it's because it's insane. but on the commercial scale, not so much info that for example,

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