That seems like a good business opportunity. Wish I were younger, I'd do something like that in a second.
Have to wonder how viable it will be in the USA. All the electrolylate is flammable, and will need to be recaptured. The powders once stripped of metals will need to be recaptured for land filling, then messing with Ni, Co, etc. doable but the regulations most place will be painful. More painful then dealing with hogs heads of powders that are made elsewhere and just coated here.
I do think the SS batteries are coming. But I think the lithium is going to stay. Electrochemical energy storage and the movement of ions has finite limits. There is a reason lithium was chosen, as it seems there are no better alternatives. I sound like a naysayer, but we have been utterly unable to form an electrolyte with a higher number of ions to move back and forth (rechargeable). Yes, we can make a very high energy density cell that consumes aluminum, for example, however, to call such a device rechargeable is quite a stretch.
