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0 pointsjoelcollinsdc3y ago0 comments

It’s not like you can just crack it open and the expensive metal falls out though. It’s an industrial process.

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Ummm, no that’s almost exactly how it works actually.

ipqk3y ago

Sort of. The bulk of that material you see is just a ceramic substrate. There's only a few grams of valuable metals in each converter.

tehwebguy3y ago

Plus with literally hundreds of millions of dollars in profits there’s no problem doing some “industrial process“

bluGill3y ago

It isn't hard to melt those metals out. I used melt aluminum in my backyard, and the forums for that had discussions on other metals. While a backyard process is not going to recover all the metal, it is still going to get plenty.

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