alt Hacker NewsEffort high enough to consider that material lost to any practical purpose like a tv.
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nkrisc • yesterday at 5:55 PM
If prices of certain metals were high enough I bet people would stop throwing out TVs and dig up old ones from the dump.
Effort high enough to consider that material lost to any practical purpose like a tv.
If prices of certain metals were high enough I bet people would stop throwing out TVs and dig up old ones from the dump.
Cost scales with refinement effort, so it just results in more expensive TVs. That said, pretty sure we'll have drowned the planet in landfilled TVs long before this becomes a serious issue