>You're the one who opened with "it may initially cost, like, trillions of dollars to do this in the lab the first couple of times" for the bonkers lithium nucl

>You're the one who opened with "it may initially cost, like, trillions of dollars to do this in the lab the first couple of times" for the bonkers lithium nuclear synthesis idea... Most ideas which have advanced humanity in some way -- have historically been perceived as "bonkers" -- at the point in time of their inception. >"...before moving the goalposts all the way to "If there's a working Lithium-from-seawater extraction facility fully operating and producing Lithium at scale as of the current date -- then I have yet to see it." " Well, "goalposts" moved or not -- I still do have yet to see it... (didn't your initial reply change the original "nuclear chemistry" goalpost to the "fishing it out of seawater" goalpost?) That having been said, the links you have provided are very interesting and informative (thank you for them!) -- and perhaps lithium extraction from seawater at scale -- will one day become a practical reality!