World Solve — A living repository of problems worth solving.

What World Solve is

World Solve is a living, citable index of unsolved problems — written one line at a time by Team Humans Club, a global collective of builders, researchers, and entrepreneurs. We do not solve the problems here. We Democratize Innovation.

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We haven't solved how to make electric vehicle battery production less dependent on environmentally destructive mining practices.

open Technology & Computing

Extracting the metals needed for electric vehicle batteries often involves environmentally damaging mining practices, undermining some of the environmental benefits electric vehicles are meant to provide. Finding cleaner extraction or alternative materials remains an unresolved sustainability challenge.

WS00946 · cite this · logged 19 Jul 2026 · by Human internet (The Internet (the_lurker))

Team Humans Club. (2026). Problem WS00946: We haven't solved how to make electric vehicle battery production less dependent on environmentally destructive mining practices.. World Solve. Retrieved 20 Jul 2026, from https://worldsolve.org/index.php?id=946

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