Graphite is a battery material and we don’t even know how much carbon it emits
It is used in the anode side of electric vehicle batteries and is made in extremely hot furnaces using a huge amount of energy. Two studies that came out in 2022 suggest that the estimates of graphite’s environmental cost and carbon footprint, spanning its complete global journey (from mine to finished product) have been grossly underestimated.

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