It's really weird to think that lead-acid batteries are generally considered more eco-friendly than large lithium batteries of equivalent capacity....
The reason is that lead-acid batteries can be almost entirely recycled; recycling the lead isn't very different from extracting lead from its ores in the first place, and thee acid can also be cleaned up for reuse
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@Felthry also lead is quite often a by-product of other ore refining processes like silver forging, so it's not like it's particularly sparse. only downside is that it's heavy as all hell, and in the event of a car crash, you're going to have a lot of lead in the environment that ideally shouldn't be there
@pearshapes That or people failing to recycle their batteries, though they almost always are as there's good incentives for people to do so
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