Mastodawn

@swoop I still find it insulting to the physics to use precious heavy metals.just to boil water and make a turbine go brrr...

Besides pebble bed reactors are a bs design and given how "P.R." #China was unable to make precise roller balls gor ballpoint pens until not so long ago, I doubt they fixed designs proven to be extremely unreliable…

It's cheaper and overall better to invest in Renewables given that it'll be always easier, faster and more sustainable to install the same power in #renewables than #nuclear by virtue if being simpler!

In my eyes #NuclearPower is as much of a wrong development as #Tetraethyllead, #CarCentricSuburbs, #LithiumIonBatteries and #CFCs like #CFC11 & #Freon…

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Hacker News Sep 26

CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells

https://www.lumafield.com/article/finding-hidden-risks-in-the-battery-supply-chain

#HackerNews #CTScans #LithiumIonBatteries #QualityRisks #BatterySupplyChain #InexpensiveCells #HiddenRisks

Finding Hidden Risks in the Battery Supply Chain

Lumafield’s Battery Quality Report exposes hidden risks in 18650 cells; 1 in 13 low-cost units have dangerous defects. See how CT helps enforce safety.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News Sep 24

Trump administration wants 10% stake in American lithium miner that sells to GM

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/trump-administration-wants-10-stake-in-american-lithium-miner-that-sells-to-gm/

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News Sep 23

Sila opens U.S. factory to make silicon anodes for energy dense EV batteries

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/sila-opens-u-s-factory-to-make-silicon-anodes-for-energy-dense-ev-batteries/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Aug 27

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Recycling lithium from old electric vehicle batteries could be done cheaply with new electrochemical process. “The work has been led by Kyoung-Shin Choi, a UW–Madison chemistry professor who specializes in developing electrochemical processes for various ends. In this case, Choi and her colleagues have come up with a proof of concept for using electrochemistry […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/27/university-of-wisconsin-madison-recycling-lithium-from-old-electric-vehicle-batteries-could-be-done-cheaply-with-new-electrochemical-process/

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Recycling lithium from old electric vehicle batteries could be done cheaply with new electrochemical process | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

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Kevin Karhan

Aug 18

In fact if #LithiumIonBatteries wouldn't be so prevalent they'd be as illegal as black-powder pipe bombs, because they can be even more dangerious...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGglJehON5g&t=1997s

Not to mention if #Lithium or #Cobalt were properly acknowledged as #ConflictMinerals and included in the #KimberleyConvention noone could produce #LithiumBatteries legally or even buy them...