Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumption was from renewables

Re:Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumpt... by missedthecue on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:53AM (#26592140)

I don't know if there's enough lithium in the world to stabilize a global renewable grid and make 100 million electric cars per year forever and make 1.5 billion phones a year and all the other things we use batteries for.

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Re:Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumpt... by kwhitefoot on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:54AM (#26593565)

Lithium is very abundant. It's the 25th most abundant element at about 20 mg per kg in the Earth's crust. It is present in seawater at a concentration of about 0.2 ppm in seawater, about 230 billion tons total.

If electricity is going to be so cheap then we can just extract lithium from seawater.

Plus dead lithium batteries can of course be used as a high grade ore.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium

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Re:Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumpt... by bluGill on Friday March 26, 2021 @10:53AM (#26592867)

Hopefully we start to recycle batteries better. Most people throw their old broken phone in a landfill from what I gather. (broken, there is a market for non-broken phones)

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