Post #1415151
2026-04-11 20:00 UTC
@praxeology @liaizon I'm gonna get like 600 cycles out of each of these batteries that costs a couple dollars each, idk if it's worth the effort to get a different chemistry just for more cycles
> Lithium mining is a nasty business so I want to help minimize that damage.
there's like a mouse fart's worth of lithium in these batteries. it's not like you're personally ordering the manufacturing of the batteries :) they'e already been produced and are sitting in a warehouse somewhere, just use them. they'll be phased out before long when sodium ion becomes the standard
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@praxeology@post.lurk.org 2026-04-11 20:26
@feld You can get 5x as many cycles from the LiFePo ones. That's an 80% reduction in environmental damage, labor exploitation and toxic waste. And as a bonus it means I can potentially wait 10 years before I have to go through the tedium of battery shopping again. My share of the collective responsibility is pretty small in this case but it's not nothing and if I can reduce the damage and extend the life of the object, then I'm happy to do that even if it goes against the conventional wisdom a lot of us grew up with.