$1.5B lithium deposit discovered in Maine; excavating it poses a legal challenge

Re:$1.5B lithium deposit discovered in Maine; excavating it ... by KarlKemp on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @09:05AM (#29012789)

This was the common mantra ca. 15 yes ago on Slashdot that made you look extremely in-the-know, with that ineffable quality of genius that cynicism is often mistaken for.

Have you read anything in the intervening decade-and-a-half? Battery and solar power prices have come down by 90%+. Wind by 70%. (https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/li-io... for batteries, https://static.dw.com/image/56696354_7.png for the rest). Nuclear power is more expensive than ever, and easily 3x as much as the alternatives.

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Re:$1.5B lithium deposit discovered in Maine; excavating it ... by Pxtl on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @09:55AM (#29013317)

My point is that nowhere has successfully done it. No jurisdiction that I know of has completed a changeover to zero-carbon emissions power based on their wind/solar production, while there are several that have been quietly humming along on 100% nuclear for years.

While there have been massive advancements in wind/solar, the only tech that has been successfully used to create the backbone of a zero-carbon power-grid is nuclear.

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