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I think your data is bit off: https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/lithium/mcs-2018-lithi.pdf https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/li

by llukas 9y ago

I think your data is bit off: https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/lithium/mcs-2018-lithi.pdf https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/lithium/mc... 53M tons of lithium available = 53000M of kg = 5300M of Tesla batteries can be made...

elihu 9y ago
Also, that's just the lithium deposits we know about now.
- greglindahl 9y ago
  Actually, no, that's the lithium deposits that we know can be extracted at the current price. If the price goes up, the reserves rise immediately, because more of what we know becomes extractable.
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