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Re:With the 745-Mile Solid-State Battery, Toyota Just Became... by megaman821 on Sunday July 23, 2023 @12:55PM (#36837187)
If you look at the amount of oil and gas that is extracted vs the amount of lithium that would we need to mine; it is like comparing the size of the Sun to Pluto. Mining lithium has downsides but there is just no way it could be as bad as oil and gas due to the orders of magnitude difference in quantities needed.
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Re:With the 745-Mile Solid-State Battery, Toyota Just Became... by Detrytus on Sunday July 23, 2023 @01:51PM (#36837808)
Are you talking about pure lithium quantities? Those are small indeed, but... the concentration of lithium in the ore mined is low (some mines work with 0.2% ore), so you need to move 500kg of rocks to mine 1kg of lithium.
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Re:With the 745-Mile Solid-State Battery, Toyota Just Became... by mikeyouse on Sunday July 23, 2023 @08:41PM (#36841623)
Most “mined” lithium doesn’t come from ore but rather from brine.
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