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They to mine way more Earth for this rare Earth mineral batteries.

• AnthonyMouse 8y ago
  As opposed to, say, aluminum, which consumes so much electricity to produce that it amounts to ~3% of the world electrical generating capacity and producers have resorted to building their own power plants at the site of the smelting operation. There is also the question of how much longer lithium mining will have to continue at this pace, since in a few years there will obviously be a dense source of lithium for new batteries in the form of all the old batteries that can be recycled.