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> Which raw material are you talking about? Be specific. Uh Lithium?

• pfdietz 4y ago
  It's as if you think Li-ion batteries are the only kind that can exist. This is a generic problem with anti-renewable arguments: they argue against specific technologies rather than the entire class of possible technologies. (And then they go and posit all sorts of as-yet unbuilt reactor types, blithely ignoring the irony.)
• ncmncm 4y ago
  Batteries will be only a negligible fraction of utility storage, and a negligible fraction of those will be lithium. Lithium is the most expensive storage. Utilities will choose the cheaper among many alternatives, not the most expensive; the which is why they are not building nukes.
• epistasis 4y ago
  The lithium is there, it just needs capital investment. Ironically ESG has guided capital away from extractive industries like this. It's not a physical limitation, it's a timing of scaling limitation, and we haven't hit it in a hard way yet. Plenty of new lithium resources, and more being discovered all the time.