• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Holy crap, this is huge.

    I recently read an article claiming that China had secured their lithium future because they found a mine with scattered deposits that maybe add up to one million tons of lithium.

    But the states just discovered at least 23 million tons in Arizona and California?

    So goodbye extra national lithium dependence?

    Anybody in the industry have any cents they care to throw in?

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      10 months ago

      We will destroy the environment trying to produce enough lithium to give every person in North America a car, when we should have been switching over to free public transport.

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        10 months ago

        I agree we should have built better transportation infrastructure, but we will not destroy the environment by producing lithium batteries, especially with only two sites that collectively contain at least 200 times the current global use of lithium.

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            10 months ago
            1. If it’s too late anyway…

            2. Have you been to Arizona?

            3. 300 years of developed sustainable technology go a long way

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              10 months ago

              Humanity objectively makes the planet a worse place. Since our first steps, we’ve driven 70% of all species to extinction. Every day we drive 150 more.

              If any other organism was this destructive in any environment we would work to eradicate it.

              Human exceptionalism is disgusting.

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        10 months ago

        Not necessarily. It depends how it’s mined. Lilac is partnered up with Lake Resources and have a proven, patented, and tested tech of ion-exchange instead of hard rock mining.

        = no digging and recycled water use (no evaporation).