Oh good, more earth to pillage.
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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Brighter note, to date is still the best way to make batteries, we need it to build storage capabilities for a grid based on renewable energy.
Unfortunately we'll probably end up using it for disposable vapes instead
Sodium ion batteries would be better for grid storage. They're cheaper, more durable, and work in a wider range of temperatures. Plus they're going to market within the year
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Why is it never in MY yard???
You own the mineral rights of your backyard?
I'd like to say yes, but I'm not going to check. Too much effort to look through all my documents.
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Just install an industrial military complex in your backyard, then use it to extract lithium or oil from all the sources. Its a tried and tested method.
Trump: "So the oil is under the lithium? How does this work?"
It's more like his cronies will claim it's under federal jurisdiction then sell all rights to one of trump's sons for a button.
Really bizarre to write or post an article saying this deposit was 'discovered'. This is decade old news. I saw the headline and thought 'oh nice that's like a whole other Thacker Pass' but it literally is just Thacker Pass.
Somebody needs to figure out a way to prevent people from upvoting headlines of articles they haven't read because as far as I can tell there is absolutely no reason to post or upvote this.
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Lithium isn't quite like gold. It is not rare at all. The news isn't that it is there, the news is that someone has found a place where it is relatively easy to dig, and lots of it.
In only a few years, most batteries will be made without lithium anyway.
In only a few years, most batteries will be made without lithium anyway.
Citation needed.
Sodium-ion and maaaaybe iron are promising, with sodium-ion making the most headway.
https://batterycouncil.org/battery-facts-and-applications/about-sodium-batteries/
Not quite widely commercially available yet, but I wouldn't invest heavily in lithium is it was me.
Ehh.... Lithium batteries are going to be around for quite a while even if sodium ion batteries take off. It's just more energy dense than sodium ion, so it's always going to be better for things like portable electronics.
Sodium ion might take over the market for heavier batteries like stationary power banks.
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Consult a periodic table. Lithium will always out perform sodium. Sodium batteries only exist because lithium costs more, but these large deposits are being found worldwide every few months and lithium will drop in price as a commodity. At some point, recycling will require much less new lithium to be mined.
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Would be hilarious if China figured out efficient electrolysis and powered all their stuff using hydrogen but our huge and inefficient data centers needed all of our fresh water.
Hilarious. 😒
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Abundance of critical minerals and lack of democracy. Very dangerous combination, deploy military democracy enforcement!
Good, the children yearn for the lithium mines. /s
Maybe I should re-train from computer programmer to lithium miner?
Here's the study in Minerals. I'll caution that it's an MDPI journal, but it's better than Earth.com's content mill dogshit.
Honest question: What's wrong with MDPI? I've published in one of them, and noted that they (MDPI) have been spamming for more ever since, but other than that I haven't heard of any issue with them.
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The Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club indicates they support cleaner energy but believe drilling must not come at the expense of fragile habitats.
Foreign lithium isn't magic, zero-footprint lithium. We are a major consumer of lithium, and will probably increase if we're going to move to BEVs. If we're going to consume it, it only seems fair to the rest of the world to have some of the footprint in our own territory.
Sounds like it's time to bring the U.S some Freedom! 😎🪖🕊️
How much you wanna bet that Trump will somehow cause the entire deposit to catch fire?
BEVs and energy storage needs to move on to safer battery systems. Lithium batteries have killed a lot of people already.
So has oil. Probably far more than lithium ever will.
CATL has a sodium ion battery car coming out this year. Literally zero risk of thermal runaway, more resilient in extreme high and low temperatures and many more life cycles than lithium ion at a lower cost.
America is falling behind in every possible metric.
America is falling behind in every possible metric.
So that’s why they don’t use metric system?
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bet it's inside a national park that the GOP just exposed through government rollbacks.
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RARE EARTH METALS ARE NOT RARE!
Lithium is the 25th most abundant element in Earth's crust!
we see these head lines all the time because it is everywhere, the problem has never been finding it, it's been refining it, and china has a Monopoly on the refining techniques and refuses to do business with anyone who tries to adopt the technology and restricts travel of the people with the knowledge to do so.
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wow MONEY and VALUE for STONES for SOMEONE upstream from the LABOR
Who is going to invade USA this time ?
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