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minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 months agoThis is cool. Though deals with a lot of different processes with acid and likely mechanical (crushing milling the electronics). And they determined this by making $34 in gold (today’s prices), so it’d really have to be huge scale to make $$. I also wonder if they evaluated the cost of disposal of all the remaining material and acid baths in their cost analysis.
minus-squarethemeatbridge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoYeah, and is the cost of disposal a recycling process, or dumping the leftovers in the local river? Because you know that if they can make it $35 by doing the latter, those rivers are fucked.
This is cool. Though deals with a lot of different processes with acid and likely mechanical (crushing milling the electronics).
And they determined this by making $34 in gold (today’s prices), so it’d really have to be huge scale to make $$.
I also wonder if they evaluated the cost of disposal of all the remaining material and acid baths in their cost analysis.
Yeah, and is the cost of disposal a recycling process, or dumping the leftovers in the local river? Because you know that if they can make it $35 by doing the latter, those rivers are fucked.