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Yes but this assumes infinite availability of the resources required for battery production. Given they are in Africa and Asia, this is gonna be way more diffic
by neuronic 4y ago
Yes but this assumes infinite availability of the resources required for battery production. Given they are in Africa and Asia, this is gonna be way more difficult in the rising new world order with the shrinking influence of the US and EU as the Pax Americana is dying a slow death.
BRICS nations and friends will make the near future very uncomfortable for Westerners used to affluence.
- mschuster91 4y agoOut of the world's five largest lithium producing countries, the largest one by far is Australia, only China is in Asia, and half the world's reserves are in South America anyway. The US will simply do whatever it always did and, should the need arise, simply putsch away whoever governs these reserves. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_lithium_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_lithium_p... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_Triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_Triangle
- jopsen 4y agoOr companies will find alternatives. Or someone will start digging for raw materials in a place that isn't hostile.
- KptMarchewa 4y agoYeah, every non "western" country is just longing for suicide russia style.
- epistasis 4y ago30TWh/year in 2031 is not infinite, and is in fact quite finite... Also, essential minerals are alllllll over, only some (cobalt nickel) are concentrated in a few areas and those are actively being minimized and eliminated from future chemistries.
- philjohn 4y agoIsn't saltwater lithium extraction close to being a thing, as well as recycling?