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I don't know if there's enough lithium in the world to stabilize a global renewable grid and make 100 million electric cars per year forever and make 1.5 billio
by missedthecue 6y ago
I don't know if there's enough lithium in the world to stabilize a global renewable grid and make 100 million electric cars per year forever and make 1.5 billion phones a year and all the other things we use batteries for.
- bluGill 6y agoHopefully we start to recycle batteries better. Most people throw their old broken phone in a landfill from what I gather. (broken, there is a market for non-broken phones)
- kwhitefoot 6y agoLithium is very abundant. It's the 25th most abundant element at about 20 mg per kg in the Earth's crust. It is present in seawater at a concentration of about 0.2 ppm in seawater, about 230 billion tons total. If electricity is going to be so cheap then we can just extract lithium from seawater. Plus dead lithium batteries can of course be used as a high grade ore. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium