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> Li-Ion battery production had been growing at double-digit percentage for decades. I think they've proven you wrong many times over Mold in a petri dish grow
by jazzyjackson 5y ago
> Li-Ion battery production had been growing at double-digit percentage for decades. I think they've proven you wrong many times over
Mold in a petri dish grows at an accelerating rate, until it doesn’t
My conjecture is that there’s not enough lithium/etc in the world to store the energy the transportation sector requires
small cars, passenger trains, sure. but freight is a different animal. we’ll see.
- Tuna-Fish 5y agoIt's not a good idea to conjecture and argue from total ignorance. There are commonly used battery chemistries, such as LiFePO4/graphite, that simply do not use any scarce resources.
- theduder99 5y agowelcome to hackernews. also why don't the car battery manufacturers go the lifepo4/graphite route?
- Tuna-Fish 5y agoOther materials are mildly better and not too scarce. Tesla is moving some of it's production to LFP, but that's probably mostly because they want to scale up production faster than nickel mining can scale.
- mastax 5y agoThey do. Everyone in China is using them. Tesla is starting to use them outside of China as well.
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- lukeschlather 5y agoLithium is not a scarce resource. This is pretty obvious because when looking at commodity prices lithium is measured in $/metric ton rather than actually scarce elements like gold where the price is in $/troy ounce.