Posted on 10/22/2024 6:26:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
19 million tons? That should last a year. Maybe two.
Leftists will ban mining for lithium there, while they also demand we transition to depending solely on EV’s and “green” power for the grid (all of which would rely on batteries).
You load sixteen tons and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt...............
Welp, you can guess where the next hurricane and land grab will occur.
nothing say i love the environment like digging it up and trashing the scene.
> Leftists will ban mining for lithium there… <
You beat me to it. Some advocacy group will find a rare snail living there. Or maybe a study will show that the mining will contribute to Climate Change.
Then they will all get in their EV’s and drive off to a Starbucks to celebrate their victory.
The question is, can they steer a hurricane that far inland so that companies like Blackrock can buy up the land for pennies on the dollar? /sarc
Tennessee Ernie Ford 1955
“Some advocacy group will find a rare snail living there. Or maybe a study will show that the mining will contribute to Climate Change.”
Lithium mining as well as cobalt mining are terrible for the environment and for the miners
I’m watching for tge secrecy and hypocrisy
From WIKI:
Mineral resources
The Smackover Formation has been a prolific source of petroleum. The 1922 discovery of the Smackover oil field, after which the Smackover Formation is named, resulted in a sizeable oil boom in southern Arkansas.
In addition to being a petroleum reservoir, as of 2015, the brine from the Smackover Formation is the only source of commercial bromine in the United States.
A 2022 report estimated that the lithium brine in the formation has “sufficient lithium to produce enough batteries for 50 million electric vehicles.” In October 2024, federal and state researchers said there might be five million to 19 million tons of lithium, more than enough to meet the world’s demand for the battery ingredient.
Billy Boy and Evita will jump on that like a duck on a June bug
Look out Arkansas, an unnatural disaster could be in the making for you.
Wherever lithium lies it seems unnatural disasters seem to just happen. 🤔😕
There are Lepidolite mines (lithium extracted from this) in New Mexico which were abandoned when the main use was pharmaceutical. They covered the walls in these caves (I have examined personally), and now there should be a demand for the mines to be re-opened.
Time to bulldoze southern red states using an excuse.
> Lithium mining as well as cobalt mining are terrible for the environment and for the miners <
Yes indeed. But “progressives” don’t really care about that. They only care that it is not done in their backyard. Out of sight, out of mind.
We see the same thing with the illegals. Let’s welcome our new Americans! But when a group of illegals showed up on Martha’s Vineyard, they were all removed from the island pretty damn quick.
IMHO, most of them are scared to be the one to break the narrative. As an EV owner and solar owner (not because of warmageddon fears, but because I'm trying to be more self-reliant and I can produce my own power a lot easier than I can produce my own gasoline), I sometimes meet other EV owners if I take the EV on a trip and charge away from home. I wish I had a dollar for every time someone thanked me for saving the world or such. I usually show them the graph below and tell them that we'd all freak out if we knew what went into making EV's. Sometimes they say, "but who could I tell that would believe me".
Fun topic: If I'm in the south when this conversation happens, which means in the Bible Belt, I point out that the Minoan Warm Period mirrors the Era of Judges, Greek Dark Age cooling period mirrors the Era of Kings, and the Christ and the Apostles lived during the Roman Warm Period. Because they are fellow Bible believers, those are the few EV owners who I've been able to educate that the Modern Warm Period is not the freakazoid unique thing that leftists make it out to be. Most of them still fear warmageddon. But a few of them said I made them rethink their cult religion to come back to believing more in God and the Bible.
“May have”?? any drilling yet? exploration is expensive. A mine is 20 years away minimum....if ever
Probably a strip mine operation will be the process..............
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