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What’s the isiZulu for dinosaur? How science neglected African languages

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Are There Concerns Around Lithium?

The main type of battery that is used at the moment, which looks like it's here to stay, is lithium iron batteries. Some of those metals pose environmental hazards in the way that they are ind and some of those metals are mined in conditions that have raised concern. The technology to recycle these lethiumion batteries already exists. But the challenge will be to make it efficient enough so that extracting the metals from the spent batteries will be as cheap, or cheaper, than taking it from the earth.

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