Interesting Greg.
Looking a little deeper reveals this brand new, heavily govt. subsidized industry is being stifled on development from a lot of directions including the EPA.
Ghastly expensive thus adding to the cost of a Lithium storage offering, battery or other.
From LI Cycle:
UPDATE 22 DECEMBER 2023:Li-Cycle, a Canadian battery and electronics recycling company
IEEE Spectrum reported on in 2021, was recently anticipating the construction of a major new recycling facility on the grounds of what used to be the Eastman Kodak complex in Rochester, N.Y, that would have processed 25 metric kilotons of spent battery material a year. But Li-Cycle
announced in October 2023 that construction of the Rochester facility is on hold. The pause on the Rochester Hub project, says a company spokesperson, gives Li-Cycle the opportunity to better phase the project with the current timing and evolution of the battery recycling and EV markets and to optimize construction and contracting strategy.
Li-Cycle, Northvolt, and Ganfeng Lithium are among those building recycling plants, spurred by environmental and supply-chain concerns
spectrum.ieee.org
L I electrical storage will find its place. I am wary of the immediate "fix-all" supported so heavily by a politically motivated govt. Initiative.
The discipline and influence of time and analysis need to exhibit its influence as well me thinks.
At this moment the single most preferred method to extinguish a LI battery fire nationwide, in say a Tesla?
Let it burn itself out. I've watched a Tesla cook, another reason I won't use L I in my bike...but to each their own.