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It’s not like you can just crack it open and the expensive metal falls out though. It’s an industrial process.

• thepasswordis 4y ago
  Ummm, no that’s almost exactly how it works actually. https://youtu.be/F8pd_p8gppE https://youtu.be/F8pd_p8gppE
  • tehwebguy 4y ago
    Plus with literally hundreds of millions of dollars in profits there’s no problem doing some “industrial process“
  • ipqk 4y ago
    Sort of. The bulk of that material you see is just a ceramic substrate. There's only a few grams of valuable metals in each converter.
• bluGill 4y ago
  It isn't hard to melt those metals out. I used melt aluminum in my backyard, and the forums for that had discussions on other metals. While a backyard process is not going to recover all the metal, it is still going to get plenty.