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What's the ecological impact of constructing all these batteries?
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avianlyric • yesterday at 6:25 PM
Substantially smaller than building and running gas peaker plants
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theshrike79 • yesterday at 6:31 PM
Batteries are 90-95% recyclable.
Gas is 0% recyclable.
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The same as the ecological impact of constructing gas tanks and pipelines. Only using electricity from batteries doesn't have ecological harms, whereas burning gas does.