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What's the local environmental impact of drilling oil? Because it's worse than lithium and contributes to a global catastrophe that threatens billions of lives
by crowbahr 5y ago
What's the local environmental impact of drilling oil?
Because it's worse than lithium and contributes to a global catastrophe that threatens billions of lives.
- ceejayoz 5y agoSure, but the available options aren't limited to "mine lithium in Maine" and "do absolutely nothing".
- peytoncasper 5y agoGenuinely curious, what are the alternatives to the three? 1. Mine lithium 2. Drill oil 3. Do nothing You have to store energy somehow, even if the entire world shifted to walking everywhere. Goods still need to traverse the world and thus far there hasn't been anything else with a high enough energy density to get close. The argument being made is that if mining lithium becomes more popular, its likely to lead to advancements that do limit its ecological impact and provide a more sustainable method for storing energy...
- ceejayoz 5y agoAlternatives: Mine somewhere else. Non-lithium approaches to storing energy.
- crowbahr 5y agoIf America is benefiting from the Lithium we should also be mining it at home. Let's not shift our negative cost externalities to a different nation but instead own them.
- peytoncasper 5y agoDo you have examples of portable, non-mined or extracted alternatives to storing energy?