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What are you going to make the batteries from - lithium? That comes with its own host of terrible impacts that people seem to be keen to brush under the carpet.
by an9n 5y ago
What are you going to make the batteries from - lithium? That comes with its own host of terrible impacts that people seem to be keen to brush under the carpet.
- daneel_w 5y agoThe majority of lithium is extracted through passive evaporation of brine, not from ore mining. The impact is far less horrible than mining copper, gold, silver, platinum and so on. I'd wager that you have conveniently forgotten about these metals in your environmental argument.
- bryanlarsen 5y agoLithium, yes. I am very comfortable trading the existential threat of climate change, the local environmental damage caused by fossil fuel particulates, and the massive damage done by fossil fuel extraction for the damage caused by lithium extraction. The quantities of lithium required are a couple of orders of magnitude less than the quantities of oil we extract annually. There are a good half dozen viable methods of extracting lithium. Some are substantially cleaner than others, which are the ones we should use.