Steve Cotton
5 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 5, 2024 by Steve Cotton · across every show →
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Mar 5, 2024 negative
Mar 5, 2024 negative
Cotton: Pyrometallurgy burns or loses lithium into unrecoverable slag
“That really is high temperature, fossil fuels based and it doesn't recover all the materials. For example, in lithium recycling you burn the lithium or you lose what lithium you don't burn into what's called slag, which is a solid waste stream that you can't r…”
Mar 5, 2024 neutral
Mar 5, 2024 negative
Cotton: Traditional battery smelters are dangerous, unsafe hellscapes
“You know, having the desire to understand, well, what happens to these batteries, I went to smelters, and they're a hellscape. It's very dangerous. You've got lead dust all over the floor. You've got a bunch of people wearing hot suits literally chucking batte…”
Mar 5, 2024 negative
Cotton: Hydrometallurgy requires massive chemical inputs and costly waste management
“And it's not really great when it comes to the environment or worker safety. You've got train loads of chemicals coming in. So the economics of, ah, managing that, storing those in massive tank farms, and then spending tens of millions of dollars to run a tras…”