Electric Car Boom In Jeopardy: Need The World’s Entire Lithium Supply Annually To Meet Demand

Daily Sheeple ^ | 18 September 2016

[maro]

If there is a shortage, the price will spike and someone will figure out how to get more lithium out.

Is lithium consumed in the battery? Can’t we recycle the lithium?

Conclusion: Nothing to worry about.

[rightwingcrazy]

Quest to Mine Seawater for Lithium Advances

[Bullish]

Oh how stupid can this green nonsense get? They were warned of this exact thing and they ignored it.

[Lorianne]

Interesting, thanks

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I read about it some weeks ago. These big car battery factories are just another fleece scam.

[GRRRRR]

When do we get to build more electricity factories?

Where are all these batteries going to get the recharge juice from?

Coal? Solar? SKITTLES!!

[roadcat]

This will be hell on cheap cordless hand tools.

I didn't think of that. I have a lot of cordless tools that use lithium batteries. Lithium is also used in some types of lubricating grease for motors and hinges.

[VTenigma]

I’ve been saying this for years. Progressive wet dream just ran head on into reality. Lithium cordless tool batteries are now over $100.00 each, imagine a battery to power a car.

[RayChuang88]

That’s why there is now more and more interest in fuel cell technology. Thanks to maturing technology for hydrogen refueling, fuel-cell cars that that be refueled with hydrogen in 10-15 minutes but with a range of around 500 km (310 miles) could be common by the early 2020’s.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Something like 80% of electricity is produced by coal, so there coal cars anyway

[sagar]

Cute graphics, but they mean what happens WITH the extracted oil. The HELL with the environment! Double down. If you love environment so much, go hunter gatherer again. Leave modern convenience. Limousine and Learjet Liberals sicken me!

[UCANSEE2]

Yeah... but who wants to hang out at a Quik-Trip getting refueled for 15 minutes ? There’s only so much browsing you can do in a QT Station.

[umgud]

Forgot about the grease, but it is common.

[ConservaTeen]

New business plan..let’s call it Wawa, or Thorton’s or Cumberland Farms... I hang out at Wawa for 30 minutes... having a milkshake..

[RockyTx]

is there any downside to coal-powered cars?
I think that would be winder full.
much better that buying from OPEC

[RockyTx]

winderful —> wonderful

[Secret Agent Man]

Tesla

The affordable, hackable, electric car

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Your picture is preposterous BS. Don't believe every "meme" you see on the internet.

Here are aerial views of the Athabasca oil sands in Saskatchewan. You will notice there isn't much similarity to the picture you posted.

The top portion of the image you posted shows BHP's Escondida copper mine in Chile, not a lithium mine. Lithium is produced from two main sources: solution mining of lithium rich evaporite deposits, and from hard-rock mining of pegmatites.

Lithium occurs in evaporite deposits and clays that formed from drying of playa or salt lakes. The lithium is probably of volcanic origin. Such deposits are drilled, injected with water, and pumped. The pumped, lithium-containing water is put in large evaporation ponds where lithium is concentrated, usually as a carbonate or chloride (incidently, lithium carbonate was used medicinally for certain mental problems). The resulting lithium salt is sold to manufacturers. This method is water intensive and, ironically, most such mines occur in arid climates.

About two thirds of lithium from brine comes from the Andes Mountains of Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. The photo below shows a lithium solution mining operation in the Atacama desert of Chile.

[Auntie Mame]

They’re doing it all wrong. Just check out this new Mercedes Benz powered not by lithium batteries, but by simple AAs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQ8_PW-RiA

[Organic Panic]

China loves it. While all these stupid libs were clamping down on mining and energy production China was buying the world’s supplies of rare earth minerals, tungsten, lithium, and just about any other important ore.