katy vance, this trump pick for vice presidential candidate. 39 year old had been a critic of the former president, but has since become a loyal ally. that's all for now. don't forget, you can always get more on our website. that's d w dot com. you can also follow us on social media at dw news. i'm on the needs of thanks for watching the this video change the world. it shows us soldiers killing civilians in the rock more often posting. it's julie massage became a wanted man. 14 years later the we can expound it is fine and the general is done during the traces, the stories of a soldier under the volunteer of the attack. they speak to each other for the 1st time in your heart to forgive me. but the follies don't think that i carry any resentment or a grudge in my heart towards

a captivating story about this struggle for forgiveness and truth guardians of trees. julian, his sons, and the dog, secrets of war, starts july 27 on d w. this little part of good was once in electric habits where you can ford with all that the know you have all the good stuff, cobalt 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 more electric costs hitting the streets. so we need more and more batteries. and so those we need more and on 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 rest of his i'm much more open, which is why we came to 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 carpet 3 turns into 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. leave you 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 what 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. same metal foil, ready to go into a battery again. so while we're 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 of 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 that's where you're selecting method. so for it, as it seems, a toxic tends the bend to 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 boss 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 this, it will feel a leasing move, for example, in our case. so for adults, you might have some evolution of h to s. so, and maybe also some if age of formation. so this is 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 read us with which are also very by a couple of table of the environment. so normally without quite homeless, but the research is in a way, um, way not that are funds sort of stadium methods. 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 in the have 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 bulbs fix 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 using 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 they even accumulate. so that's a bottom like how much coal is that now from the by mass isn't here, will actually leave 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 the left scale. we are only doing those invest, explain them. so step by step, very calm and steady, but an industry you want to and money so you have them, you're having a continuous process and handling and continuous process move all them capabilities and all the process steps and small things you need consider. 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 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 batteries have to be taken to pop 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 is another effect that makes it hard to turn a profit the more difficult forward 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 you have 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. 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 last batch remarket for yes. so if you get material for free and then you process it, then sell it to market price, it will usually make a lot of money. 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 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 mini um, or lithium, nicole 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 going, where's it to use predicted costs up associates probably be wrong because they might go to the bottom line is and the real world recycling is much, much hotter than 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 sold 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 all. 99 percent colewell, it's because it's insane. but on the commercial scale, not so much info that for example, what are we going to do with

a home to buy products? so there's some questions that still need to be answered. if you didn't like the video, comment on it, sharon, do what ever you want with it and don't forget to subscribe to our channel. we post new videos on the environment every friday. the. ready the over half a 1000000 dead in the cheek. re warranty t o. p. s. fueled and intensified by social media. what role to facebook's algorithms play in the spiral of violence? does the company put prostate over human lives? facebook for cup probably in the

next on d, w. e co afrikaans in volume and to come sedation, the superstition in gonna many people believe that the weather's influenced by spirit. now especially trained use brigades on working with indigenous communities to challenge traditional vocal because to africa in 60 minutes on dw, the this shadows these costs and video shed lights on the dog is devastating. colonial har is infected by germany, across up, and he employed to score supposed good farms and destroy nights. what is the legacy

of this wide spread races, depression? today? history. we need to talk about here the stories, shadows of german colonialism. each tells my story, the of the people who planned me build dedicated van lines. i am not too dumb to tell the secret to listen closely and i will tell you about all those who built me up. and then to me, i am not saddam depends. he has mocked my cities days for centuries, and accompanied my country through its finest until the day nearly furnished

the ice do not to them to tell the stunts. july 18th, on d, w, the little gray war was one of the bloodiest conflicts and recent history. facebook has been accused the time and time again stoking ethnic tensions, and ethiopia, social media had a lot of us like why miss calling for about us? that's why it was one of the ships west we have seen in the last few decades. the on slot of violence claims the lives of half a 1000000 people.