Posted on 06/21/2022 11:47:47 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
Prayers for the both of us.
I have the CyberTruck on order, and am waiting for the Lithium recovery industry to take off. I work part-time as a Tech Advisor to the BOD for a company that plans on revolutionizing both the extraction and recovery of Lithium, Nickel and Cobalt. If things go as planned, I should retire very comfortably. There are a lot of very game-changing things going on, that will hopefully make everyone's life easier.
If we can survive the current regime.
Lithium batteries are considered e-waste; and are not SUPPOSED to be dumped in landfills. This means large scale producers (Black and Decker, Tesla, Samsung, Apple, etc) are required to store spent batteries, which gets expensive.
So, for the short-term, recyclers are PAID to take the feedstock, as it gets the e-waste off the books. If you look at the "Spot Price" for battery grade Lithium, Nickel and Cobalt, you will see that Lithium is running around $60k /metric ton, Nickel bounces between $30-120k/metric ton, and Cobalt is around $80k/metric ton.
Just like aluminum, or scrap steel, these metals can be recycled almost endlessly. The batteries are hermetically sealed, so it's a matter of extracting the pure metals, and entering them back into the supply chain. Yes, it's extremely lucrative
So, short term, the feedstock is shipped to you free, and they will buy all the material you can process to the purity levels they require. Long term, this "feedstock" will be a commodity that recyclers will have to purchase. So, those with a very efficient, fast, low cost method will have a competitive advantage.
I hope this answers you question.
Yep. Definitely a smug and illiterate zillennial wrote this dreck:
“Sources also told Electrek about a software engineer that was also let go by Tesla last week. They had been working at Tesla for four years –…”
This kinda reminds me of myself...
I had the skill, knowledge and experience in the area that the company I worked for needed.
But I didn’t play the political games management expected.
I was labeled an outcast.
But I was also unfireable...
I had a ball exposing the idiots for who they were, and got no retribution for my efforts.
Those who tried to retaliate against me found themselves unemployed very quickly.
I could tell you unbelievable stories of my life in woke corporate America, but I will leave with this nugget, from a movie from long ago...
A strange game Professor Falken.. the only way to win, is to not play at all...
Funny how that works. A lot of these companies I will never return.
Given the recent post regarding one of his adult sons going trans on him, perhaps this may be Musk’s response to that crap.
“HR is the worst department in every company.”
the only we “interfere” with is HR, which is WHO to HIRE. We do the interviewing, not HR. The only thing they concentrate is payroll, and all that legal crap to make sure we dont get sued every time we fire a libtard.
This is good.
I bet Musk’s son “transitioning” and estranging himself from his father hit home. (Probably Musk didn’t simply accept his new daughter and instead suggested therapy, while the son’s mother likely accepted the “transitioning”.)
learn to code, commie!
My 10 year old solar batteries have given up. I'll be taking them to a recycler this week.
They are L-16 batteries that weigh about 110 lbs each. I have 16 of them.
I'll get about $20 each for them. Paid $300 each. Hurts, but they did the job.
I’ve seen a lot of American black people in the work world with massive hate-whitey, hate-the-man, hate-capitalism, and hate-the-world, and I’m-owed-a-living chips on their shoulders. They are really ugly to the core and most often lousy workers who cause trouble in the workplace.
Engineers from Africa are exactly the opposite. Hard working, smart, well educated, innovative and polite to a fault.
They don’t want equality. They want to be celebrated.
Then there’s this: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/06/is-it-immoral-to-drive-an-electric-vehicle.php
Amen brother.
I do a lot of remote work and I can’t understand a freaking word during Teams meetings by those Indians.
Their LGBTQ?#$%! community has a president. They are a sub-community within the corporation with its own leadership structure. Let that sink in.
More going on here than minding your own business about sodomy.
All of that said, I agree much with Musk’s personnel policy. And one of his cars would be very nice for a shopper or someone who lives close to work. :)
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