'What if a common element rather than scarce, expensive ones was a key component in electric car batteries?
A collaboration co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher is hoping to spark a green battery revolution by showing that iron instead of cobalt and nickel can be used as a cathode material in lithium-ion batteries.'
A Vast, Untapped Source of Lithium Has Just Been Found in The US
"#Pennsylvania sits on a vein of sedimentary rock known as the Marcellus Shale, which is rich in natural gas. The geological foundation was deposited almost 400 million years ago by volcanic activity, and it contains #lithium from volcanic ash.
Mackey and his colleagues have now found that when wastewater is dredged up from the deep by #fracking activities, it contains an astonishing amount of lithium."
Remember: fossil fuel companies want people to focus on what uses#energy so we don't talk about the supply side.
They benefit from #environmentalists spending time and energy bickering with one another about whether AI uses too much #electricity, whether to support more #nuclear plants, whether we should mine more #lithium to have grid scale #batteries, and so forth.
That doesn't mean we can't talk about these things, but be #mindful where you spend your energy.
#Écologie 🌱 Mine de lithium dans l’Allier: «On mobilise l’industrie la plus dévastatrice pour résoudre le changement climatique»
Alors que la société #Imerys, qui prévoit d’ouvrir une mine de #lithium à Échassières, multiplie les débats publics, les habitants restent dubitatifs tandis que plane la question sans réponse de la façon dont doit être menée la #TransitionÉnergétique.
#Écologie 🌱 L’Union européenne rêve d’exploiter ses richesses minières
L’#UnionEuropéenne veut relancer ses activités minières pour décarboner son économie et tendre vers la souveraineté énergétique. Cartographie des réserves potentielles du Vieux Continent en #lithium.
Fires caused by #LithiumIon batteries r on the rise across #Canada, according 2 organization that represents country's fire chiefs, prompting warnings from fire services, injury lawyers & even #HealthCanada.
#Toronto saw a 90% increase in number of fires involving #RechargeableBatteries in 2023 — total of 55 fires, up from 29 the previous year — & the batteries were one of the leading causes of fires in #Vancouver that year.
@euractiv_green 👎 This is of course, publicity for miners! Nothing of responsibility: In my neighbourhood, they want to mine #Lithium (low yields) and plan to expropriate the #organic#farmers (they have to give up their profession) of a region, at the very limit of a #Natura2000#natureReserve! 🤮
Saches le... si on te prescris du lithium, c'est pas pour que tu cours plus vite... ça peut être pour un "trouble bipolaire" ...
Et si on te fais des prises de sang toutes les semaines, c'est pour voir si tu supporte le lithium...
Sauf que si tu ne supporte pas, bha du coup la prise de sang ne sert à rien, ça dit pas, t'as des plaques rouges partout, de la fièvre, ça ressemble à une rougeolle...et tout le monde panique en mode épidémie !
@brunus
Tu es bipo sous #lithium ?
On ne t'a pas proposé la #Quetiapine avant ?
Ça n'est pas dangereux pour les reins. Ça fait dormir beaucoup au début mais ensuite ça va.
Par contre ça m'a fait fondre les muscles et j'ai du arrêter mais c'est un effet secondaire très rare apparemment, sans doute dû à mon mode de vie alité
Responders have currently found ‘no immediate threat’, but 14 of at least 56 containers carrying #contaminants were destroyed
by Dharna Noor in Baltimore
Sat 30 Mar 2024
"In the meantime, more containers could fall into the water, including ones the NTSB says contain corrosive chemicals and #Lithium-ion batteries – materials that could leak #toxic#HeavyMetals into the water. And as long as the ship remains in the water, the possibility of the ship’s fuel container rupturing remains."
"Experts say a saltwater, or brine, aquifer under the #Smackover Formation may contain enough #lithium to produce batteries for 50 million EVs.
Umberson said this new process, dubbed Direct Lithium Extraction (or #DLE), will benefit south #Arkansas and the lithium industry as a whole because of its high lithium recovery rates and minimal environmental impact.
[But] Umberson and Donnelly say further independent research must be done on DLE and its long-term impacts."
“It’s not green, it’s greed. Global warming is a serious problem and we cannot continue burning #fossilfuels, but destroying mountains for lithium is just as bad as destroying mountains for coal. You can’t blow up a mountain and call it green.”
#Barroso is the only region in #Portugal – and one of only eight in Europe – recognised by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System of outstanding landscapes that combine agricultural biodiversity, resilient ecosystems and a valuable cultural heritage.
À chaque fois on pense qu'il a touché le fond, mais on se trompe.
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[Libération] - #FabienRoussel défend le projet de mine de #lithium dans l’#Allier.
Malgré la vive inquiétude des habitants, l’exécutif défend ce projet prévu pour 2028 qui a reçu lundi 18 mars le soutien du boss du #PartiCommuniste.
"The Saudi Arabia of #lithium." If that sounds like an exaggeration, consider that the DOE estimates there is enough lithium beneath the Salton Sea to provide batteries for more than 375 million electric vehicles (EVs).
I still hope they recycle the lithium from spent batteries.
Clean energy vs clean water: Lithium mining sucks the life blood out of local communities
"The '#lithium triangle' - spanning Argentina, Chile and Bolivia - is home to the largest reserve of lithium anywhere on Earth.
As the world’s most powerful increasingly look to the triangle as a crucial puzzle piece in their plans, many worry the search for lithium will mean sacrificing that very life force that has sustained the region’s native people for centuries."
"The cathode is not made from the familiar mixture of #lithium and other metals. Instead, the primary ingredient is #zinc, which ranks as the fourth most produced metal in the world.
Eos’s batteries use a #water-based electrolyte (the liquid that moves charge around in a battery) instead of organic solvent."
This is intended to be a #GridBattery.
"The recent price cuts come from a deliberate decision to use abundant earth materials such as iron and phosphorus wherever possible.
These #batteries are cheaper, as they have no #cobalt. They have other benefits too: a longer usable life and less risk of fire than traditional #lithium battery chemistries. The downside is they have lower capacity and voltage."