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Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase more than 7-fold in last 10y

58 pointsby JeanKagelast Thursday at 9:12 AM4 commentsview on HN

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yahootubetoday at 5:41 PM

This is because of expiring patents which create an artificial inflation of businesses' durable market value for the incumbent allowing them to monopolize the market via supply scarcity. Naturally there would have been more recycling the entire time if it were not restricted by patents.

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