Posted on 01/23/2022 10:47:02 AM PST by nickcarraway
—and what does fracking have to do with my comment?
(I’d like to see fracking forced on Pennsylvania and New York)
You were psychotically extolling how wonderful for the environment lithium mining is.
Why? In general it is done by solar evaporation of brine.
China will mine the ocean floor for Lithium and Rare Earth metals.
You are turning the world over to them because “we must ho9ld ourselves to a higher standard.”
How The U.S. Is Losing The Lithium Industry To China?”
The a$$inine Rats!!
—reread post #20, then contemplate this—everything physical you have -EVERYTHING—is either mined or grown—
I hope you get to live in a world where you never get to see a blade of grass or tree and the only thing you get to see is abandoned wind and solar farms.
The large economical reserves of Lithium are all in places where the lithium is dissolved in brine. Lithium, like the other metals in the 1st column of the periodic table is soluble in water. The element below it, sodium, is of course why the oceans are salty. I doubt there is much lithium in the ocean that is not dissolved. There is a lot of dissolved lithium in the oceans, but it is far too dilute to be profitably extracted from the water.
Two thirds of the world's lithium resources are in brines. You can read about it here.
Everybody talks about mining the ocean floor for manganese nodules, but it is not close to being financially viable yet. The earlier and much publicized manganese nodule "mining" research by the Glomar Explorer was just a cover story for its Russian sub retrieval mission.
China reportedly has large lithium brine reserves, both in China and in Tibet.
Most lithium is produced by solar evaporation of brine from salt flats in South America, the USA, and China. The process is about as benign as letting water evaporate from a pool in your back yard.
Of course the pools are much larger, and located in very remote areas.
I repeat; you deserve to live in a world without a blade of grass or tree, only abandoned wind and solar farms as far as the eye can see.
Because that is what you are going to create.
I'm not going to create any "world without a blade of grass or tree" I am just trying to help you and others understand how lithium is produced, and avoid the kind of world portrayed in the movie Idiocracy which results from people being clueless about basic chemistry, how things are made, and so on.
If you want to remain uninformed that is fine. But don't go looking on the bottom of the ocean for lithium since it is water soluble.
[ Well, how an we stop China from polluting? We can’t control them. ]
Simple we make our own lithium and find way to make it cheaper and OUT PRODUCE them!
Sounds a lot like dilithium doesn’t it?
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