The 5% rate and other untruths about battery recycling
A few days before Christmas Michael Liebreich , CEO of Liebreich Associates, posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) about batteries:
“Batteries are often described as resource-intensive. With a 95% proven recycling rate and a 10yr life, over 50% of battery minerals mined today will still be in use in 130 years. Add 5% performance improvement per cycle, and they will be delivering services forever. Boom!
The point was that batteries are in fact very resource efficient – especially compared to the fossil fuels. Let’s embrace that and invest heavily. It will only be better from here.
If there was anything that required more energy at that moment it was the servers in X data centers. Within a few hours there were some 150 comments and over 1,000 repostings. Being the founder of what is today BloombergNEF, and never afraid of causing a stir in the public opinion, Michael has more than 65,000 followers on X. A lot of fans but also a lot of people who can’t wait to show how wrong he is.
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