See that row of quarry trucks parked on the lower right? It takes a full load on each of those, together , to make one battery. It takes about 400,000 pounds of ore to make one, yeah, one, battery. Making and recycling batteries of any sort, lead acid, NiCad, lithium, or anything else is the dirtiest business on the planet. Cleaning up the mess is why a battery costs the price of a house down payment.
And look at that pic again. Where do you suppose they’re putting the leftovers which amount to 99% of the dig?
Do a search on YouTube for Cobalt mining in the Congo.
It made me sick to watch. Especially when they started showing all the little kids born with birth defects because of their parents exposure to cobalt dust.
That’s a COPPER mine.
Where’ the guardrails?