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I don't know about manganese vs lithium, but with potential iron batteries the fact that iron ore production is already 1000s of times larger means that the imp
by ajuc 5y ago
I don't know about manganese vs lithium, but with potential iron batteries the fact that iron ore production is already 1000s of times larger means that the impact of adding battery production won't be as big.
If you have to do 1% more of something it's probably not a problem. If you have to do 900% more of something - it will likely become a problem.
- DennisP 5y agoAlso, different elements will have different impacts per kilogram, just because they have different concentrations, are found in different environments, etc. If X is 30% of its ore and Y is 0.03%, then you can dig up a thousand times as much X as Y and get the same environmental impact for each.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoThis logic makes no sence whatsoever. So of we had to increase production of moss, would that be a prohlem? No, because it has no impact - we just never needed to produce it in quantity. Same goes for lithium. The only thong that matters is the absolute ecological impact per kilo produced.
- ajuc 5y ago> So of we had to increase production of moss, would that be a prohlem? By 900%? Sure. > No, because it has no impact You don't see the impact because it's too small for now. It will become obvious when you scale up by orders of magnitude. Cars were seen as the solution to pollution in cities once.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoSo you think there is an impact, but you cant point out what it is because about farming moss is just as mysterious to a 21st century man as climate change was to 19th century man?