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Thats… 200 MWh per person worth of lithium.
Or energy storage equal to 200 tons of TNT.
Unlike fossil fuels it is not consumed and will be recycled.
In short, there’s a few orders of magnitude of more lithium around than anyone will ever need. It all comes down to price of extraction.
Taking enough out of the oceans for everybody to have a Tesla won’t even take 0.1% of what’s there.
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Thats… 200 MWh per person worth of lithium.
Or energy storage equal to 200 tons of TNT.
Unlike fossil fuels it is not consumed and will be recycled.
In short, there’s a few orders of magnitude of more lithium around than anyone will ever need. It all comes down to price of extraction.
Taking enough out of the oceans for everybody to have a Tesla won’t even take 0.1% of what’s there.