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To: MinorityRepublican

charging stations are just not there to support widespread average people having even one of their cars, be an electric car.

its increasing, but not at a pace to keep up even if the number of electric vehicles doubles in a year. then there is also a finite amount of lithium and cobalt that exists annually, for all producers of lithium battery devices tap into.


67 posted on 03/07/2021 9:02:44 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I am a geologist and a geochemistry expert specifically salt water disposal wells and salt water injection or brine production wells. I hold a master’s in hydrogeology as well. There are over 100,000 wells just in the Midland basin every one of which is actually a contaminated brine production well. Oil is a by product the water is the primary fluid produced the avg is 6 barrels of salt water to one barrel of oil I have seen over 100:1 and never less than one to one. Point is that produced brine is loaded with lithium over 300 cars worth per DAY per well with a hundred thousand wells to tap. One of my alma mater has technologies that more than one of my clients are in beta testing as we speak harvesting lithium salts in the Permian.

As for cobalt that metal is being removed from LIon cells. LFP cells use zero cobalt and the new Li manganese cells not only have 6 times the power density they also fast charge at ten times the rates of lithium nickel cobalt cathode.

https://news.utexas.edu/2018/02/09/new-lithium-collection-method-could-boost-global-supply/&ved=2ahUKEwjivJTb-Z_vAhXLG80KHVe4B9gQFjAAegQIBBAD&usg=AOvVaw24bG8bQXM2tClGY1TaEXnr


101 posted on 03/07/2021 9:23:59 PM PST by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: Secret Agent Man

Also arent cell phones still using up lithium and cobalt for their batteries as well? That finite resource will become scarce before long creating a total clusterf=ck


128 posted on 03/07/2021 9:51:53 PM PST by Blue Highway
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