"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.
@CelloMomOnCars the area around the Salton Sea is already dangerously polluted, one can only imagine what a lithium mine will add to the mix.
Like you say, recycling lithium should be preferable to ripping it out of the Earth.
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."
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