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Re:Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ... by bettercallsalad on Sunday September 10, 2023 @07:32AM (#37454865)
> Of course the US can do whatever it want's in 20 years with enough money.

Are we sure US can anymore? Last I checked we couldn’t build a high speed rail despite spending billions of dollars and lots of time. I would not be so optimistic. Even for things as crucial as defense supply chain we can’t seem to figure out how to build things at scale.

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Re:Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ... by nickserv on Sunday September 10, 2023 @07:56AM (#37455000)
Building high speed rail is complicated because of land rights, the US is not China where the government can just order people off large swathes of land as needed.

Lithium mining is more like the shale oil boom, when the US went from an net importer to a net exporter of fossil fuels, environmental damage be damned.

When it's for private industry's profit, the US is quite competent at eliminating any oversight of environmental and societal concerns.

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Re:Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ... by megaman821 on Sunday September 10, 2023 @11:46AM (#37456942)
Shouldn't we be seeing wide-scale, obvious signs of environment destruction consider how many barrels a day the US produces? Maybe it is not covered well by the news, but do you have any sources for major environmental destruction?
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Re:Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ... by megaman821 on Monday September 11, 2023 @03:12PM (#37472241)
I did not say or believe that fracking causes no harm to the environment, just at the scale fracking is done at there would be more than minor incidents, there would be mass devastation wherever fracking was taking place. Most of these issues are fracking be done too close to underground water reservoirs.
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Re:Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ... by midoridensha on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:12AM (#37477725)
>Building high speed rail is complicated because of land rights, the US is not China where the government can just order people off large swathes of land as needed.

Japan is not China either, yet Japan has little trouble building new bullet trains. We're building a new maglev train right now between Tokyo and Nagoya which should be finished before the decade is over, and 90% of the route is underground.

The US just doesn't really want to build high speed rail.

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