> However, from a hyper environmentalist position, this invention unfortunately ended up fueling all manners of wars through the specific material requirements,

> However, from a hyper environmentalist position, this invention unfortunately ended up fueling all manners of wars through the specific material requirements, cobalt being the prime example That's simply not accurate. Very few wars have been fueled by cobalt or the general material requirements of Li-ion batteries. Nearly every other major resource have prompted far more wars than cobalt (oil/gas, gold/silver, water, land, agriculture, etc).