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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

if you looked up temperatures needed for aluminum electrolysis,

and then you have to deliver electricity to it, keep it isolated electrically, thermally, chemically (kept sealed), and how do you even make plastics without steel reactors

electrowinning is a process but it won't work for aluminium. also you all completely ignore glass as a material and ceramics generally