Notes on what we're building and why: battery recycling, industrial decarbonisation, and engineering education.
Most lithium-ion battery recycling today throws away the one thing that took the most energy to build: the cathode's crystal structure. Here's why that matters, and what direct recycling does differently.
Net zero for an industrial plant doesn't have to mean a multi-year, multi-crore program from day one. A worked example of a phased approach, modeled on a 30 GWh LFP cell plant.
Batteries are sold as an inherently green technology. The manufacturing process behind them tells a more complicated story.