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Two snippets from the Google search for scale: "The world's oceans contain an estimated 180 billion tons of lithium" "Lithium mines produced an estimated glob

Two snippets from the Google search for scale: "The world's oceans contain an estimated 180 billion tons of lithium" "Lithium mines produced an estimated global total of 82,000 metric tons of lithium in 2020"

amelius 5y ago
So even after 100 years of extraction, the effect would still be less than 0.005%.
- lolsal 5y ago
  We don't have a good idea of how this new method will scale, or how demand will scale once this cheaper method gets going. It's hard to speculate accurately I think.