[oyashirochama]

The production of batteries is VERY toxic, its mostly hidden by deveoping country production and ignorance. Ironically the most toxic battery has the highest recycle rate and lithum batteries aren't exactly easy to recycle in comparison to lead acid.

[kjksf]

Do you have EVIDENCE that production of batteries is VERY toxic?

What, specifically, is toxic?

How do you measure this toxicity?

How does it compare to, I don't know, digging oil in the middle of ocean, occasionally spilling it into ocean or earth.

Plus all the toxic CO2 generated transporting the oil all over the world and then burning it in gas engine.

You don't get to throw around FUD about vague, undefined "toxicity" supposedly involved in making batteries.

When you're CONFIDENTLY making such claims, provide definitions, numbers, supporting evidence and compare and contrast with the thing electric batteries are replacing i.e. the oil industry which involves digging out oil, refining it, distributing it and a few wars to protect it.

[mrshadowgoose]

Please don't move the goalposts. The person you replied to was asking about carbon impact, not "toxicity".

[dhritzkiv]

I believe them bringing up toxicity is a completely valid answer to the question. I understood the question as "what else is there to consider if we solve the carbon-derived energy problem?" Environmental impacts fits within that.

[thghtihadanacct]

lol, im not sure if you dropped the /s or not there are some seriously stupid people out there so it makes it easy

[DrBenCarson]

1. Toxicity doesn’t cause climate change.

2. With infinite energy we could neutralize that toxicity at no cost.

Energy is the limiting factor for everything short of cattle.

[MrBuddyCasino]

And even there you have animal feed production influenced by fertilizer, which consumes something between 1-3% of total energy via the Haber-Bosch process.