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"we'll never run out of lithium" is the new "640k ought to be enough for anybody". As we make lithium battery capacity more affordable, it gets applied more br
by int0x2e 4y ago
"we'll never run out of lithium" is the new "640k ought to be enough for anybody".
As we make lithium battery capacity more affordable, it gets applied more broadly, and the rate of use goes up. There is a very finite amount of any resource here on earth, and while we can get things more and more efficient, there will be a moment where we can no longer extract lithium (or other materials) required for battery production. Treating these as an endless resource is the same error we made with fossil fuels, just hopefully without as much climate change as a direct result...
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- colechristensen 4y agoThe oceans of earth contain enough lithium for every human to have 4000 teslas. Thats… 200 MWh per person worth of lithium. Or energy storage equal to 200 tons of TNT. Unlike fossil fuels it is not consumed and will be recycled. In short, there’s a few orders of magnitude of more lithium around than anyone will ever need. It all comes down to price of extraction. Taking enough out of the oceans for everybody to have a Tesla won’t even take 0.1% of what’s there.