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Lithium is not rare, it's not going to lead to the development of new Saudi Arabias, and the lithium in batteries can be indefinitely recycled. I wish people w

Lithium is not rare, it's not going to lead to the development of new Saudi Arabias, and the lithium in batteries can be indefinitely recycled. I wish people would stop trying to paint the energy future along these lines. It's a fossil fuel rip-it-and-ship-it mindset from the past bolted onto the future and it's often propagated by people who an $$ interest in keeping things the way things are, or are trying to pump some new temporary get-rich-scheme ("harvest lithium from abandoned oil wells!" "buy these penny lithium stocks" etc)

Detrytus 3y ago
Lithium, as an element is not rare, but the deposits that are economically viable to mine are. I keep hearing about extracting lithium from seawater, but no one so far have come up with viable technology. Funny thing is: laws like EU's one that demands all new cars be electric by 2035 will lead to lithium shortages, which means Lithium batteries will become much more expensive in the next few decades.