Posted on 07/28/2022 11:23:15 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Elon Musk is pleading for more investment in lithium, the silvery-white metal that's crucial to making electric-car batteries. He recently complained about the metal's "insane" costs and said anyone who enters the refining business basically gets a "license to print money."
The billionaire has a point. As the auto industry shifts away from dirty fossil fuels and toward cleaner battery power, lithium is in the spotlight. Demand for the metal has skyrocketed in recent years, as has its price.
Questions still remain about whether the world will manage to mine, refine, and ship enough lithium to support the green revolution set to occur over the next decade and beyond. Here we've laid out the basics of why lithium is so important and what could happen next.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Just think about it....Armies around the world are going to be electric? That’s just nuts.
We will coup whoever we want to get my preciouss..
pwnt
Supplying the electricity to recharge seems a huge problem too considering our electric grids can barely keep up now- with some states facing rolling blackouts during peak usages-
In come the fat white boomer mouthbreathing idiots...”Well I’d never buy one....blah, blah”. Margie make me a liverwurst sandwich and get me a beer.”
Well, you would be wrong about that.
Only the losing armies around the world will be electric. The rest of them will run on diesel and crush the others while they are looking for an outlet to plug into.
Of course, they may just have to go run to find their generators to charge up. Those generators will be run on diesel.
Makes a lot of sense doesn’t it?
Wow, even the excerpt alone is laying on the anti ICE bias so thick I will not read their screed!
Well, brilliant things come from brilliant people don’t you know?
/s
Not the ChiComs.
They’re putting civilians in electric vehicles and saving the petroleum for the military.
If you want to persuade people to buy electric cars, name calling and insulting them is not going to work.
What is your Plan B?
;-)
Moron doesn’t understand sarcasm.
See that row of quarry trucks parked on the lower right? It takes a full load on each of those, together , to make one battery. It takes about 400,000 pounds of ore to make one, yeah, one, battery. Making and recycling batteries of any sort, lead acid, NiCad, lithium, or anything else is the dirtiest business on the planet. Cleaning up the mess is why a battery costs the price of a house down payment.
And look at that pic again. Where do you suppose they’re putting the leftovers which amount to 99% of the dig?
Sounds like a bull market for Caterpillar and Komatsu, right?
so0- because i suggest that there might be electricity problems if everyone is forced to switch to electric- that the grid might be overwhelmed- that makes me a ‘fat white boomer mouthbreather idiot”?
Gee- I’ll bet you are just a ton of fun at parties!
We could get some by disassembling the warheads on our Thermonuclear Weapons ...
I have read that the mine-able lithium deposits will only enable the conversion of 6-7% of the internal combustion powered cars to electric.
Then, recycling the batteries will become mandatory to keep the EV industry going, but at a flatline.
Especially after the whole auto industry moves to “EV-only” in 2030-2035.
If they think oil drilling is bad, just wait until they see the environmental mess left behind from their green power supply.
😂😂😂👍
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