Lohum: Producing sustainable battery raw materials through recycling | THE WEEK — Transcript

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1. 0:01foreign
2. 0:03just like black gold AKA oil clean
3. 0:07energy sources like solar and wind
4. 0:09depend on white gold or green gold
5. 0:12minerals and metals like copper Cobalt
6. 0:15zinc silver and especially lithium these
7. 0:19are the raw materials that go into
8. 0:22making batteries that Power electric
9. 0:25vehicles and other clean Technologies
10. 0:27the issue some of them like lithium are
11. 0:30only available in few parts to work
12. 0:33where a varietable geopolitical gold
13. 0:36rush has begun for control of these
14. 0:39acids just like Nations going into war
15. 0:43for oil in the past there is now a cold
16. 0:46war over these resources India is in an
17. 0:50unenviable position the feasibility of
18. 0:52the lithium deposits in Kashmir and
19. 0:54Rajasthan is yet to be ascertained
20. 0:57meanwhile China with its Edge in new
21. 1:01technologies and influence over mining
22. 1:04contracts in Africa and South America
23. 1:06Web minerals like lithium are found is
24. 1:09dangerously ahead in the race
25. 1:12obviously India is not going to let
26. 1:15China have a walk over the government
27. 1:16has started production linked incentives
28. 1:19for advanced cell chemistry While most
29. 1:21of the biggies of India in cooperation
30. 1:24Tata Ambani Mahindra adani are jumping
31. 1:28on the bandwagon having revealed the
32. 1:30intent to invest heavily in New Age
33. 1:33energy
34. 1:34yet it is mostly in in-conspicuous
35. 1:37startup campuses that the revolution has
36. 1:40become the week brings you the story of
37. 1:43one such tattoo logo
38. 1:45it takes used battery packs from
39. 1:48electric cars and two wheelers primarily
40. 1:51and rips out hard to get minerals and
41. 1:54metals like lithium for reals it's very
42. 1:58important for us to understand how to
43. 2:00solve for these materials as we think
44. 2:03about the broader energy transition
45. 2:05loham decided to explore the journey
46. 2:08into securing these materials for the
47. 2:12nation
48. 2:13and certainly for the world in general
49. 2:15as it tries to transition to a cleaner
50. 2:18and Greener sources of energy
51. 2:21essentially the company uses patent
52. 2:23technology to give a deep Tech spin to
53. 2:27the Great Indian jagad
54. 2:29if you do have it just reclaim and adapt
55. 2:31lohom in fact is one of the biggest
56. 2:34billing itself as the world's largest
57. 2:36producer of sustainable battery raw
58. 2:39materials through recycling loham has
59. 2:42its own cleaning and extraction process
60. 2:44developed and patent by its 500 strong
61. 2:47research and development team battery
62. 2:50packs are first dismantled to figure out
63. 2:53how many good cells are left the good
64. 2:56ones go to a repurposing facility while
65. 2:58the bad ones go for recycling
66. 3:01each material of value is extracted and
67. 3:04goes through its own unique process
68. 3:06China is estimated to have around 40 000
69. 3:10recyclers while Lohan is possibly one of
70. 3:14just two in India that could change soon
71. 3:16once the windfall of batteries from the
72. 3:19initial crop of bikes and cars turn up
73. 3:22for recycling meanwhile these companies
74. 3:24are not ready to rest on their laurels
75. 3:29thank you
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