lol there's a plant that is so thirsty for nickel, the metal, in the soil that if grown on nickel rich tropical soil, it's leaves and wood are >2% weight nickel, which is profitable enough to minehttps://twitter.com/qrs/status/1237287378898890753 …
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You can mine precious metals from the dust on the side of the road, but yields are very low. If we can get plants or soil bacteria to concentrate it for us, using sun, we would cut tons of CO2. I even made a joke about it being a way to fund mining drones.https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/740385299637932032 …
The big 'vein' of research in this space is rehabilitation of mine tailings and pollution from that process https://repository.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/31293 … and also cool plants that can strip lead out of soil. IIRC.
(if you are serious) tesla could do more than it is to eliminate child labor from its cobalt supply chain but it’s not the case that they have child labor cobalt mines. they’ve already reduced cobalt to 3% of battery mass & trying to eliminate it entirely...
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