Comment on A hidden deposit of lithium in a US lake could power 375 million EVs

kaitco@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve passed by this ‘sea’, a multitude of enterprising resorts decaying in the quiet sun. This time capsule of the 1960s smells like death, and its strangely yellow dust is concerning even if you didn’t know how much fertilizer runoff was dumped in there by surrounding date farms.

  source

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s got strongly developed post apocalypse vibes. You can pull down just about any street and be like “I should not be here…”

    source

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now I want to visit. I mean, there should be 1000 and 1 reason to visit USA and California in particular, but that’s the first one which really gives a feeling.

      source

      • Brkdncr@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’d also like the 3rd largest city in California, California City. Both are portraits of a generation that could afford to dream big and avoid financial ruin.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
  • tar_xf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You certainly have a way with words.

    source

    • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you kindly 😊

      source
  • doctorcrimson@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If a person IS strangely into all of that stuff then I actually recommend the annual Fallout New Vegas festival they hold in Goodsprings Nevada, instead.

    source
  • kaitco@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh, that’s just lovely.

    source
• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The lake was a runoff for the colorado river back when farmers over used water and the leftover was dumped ino that “lake”. The lake in its current state is too saline and dried up to ecologically be stable. The buildup of farm chems over the year cause dust in problems in socal when winds picked it up.

  source

  • gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, when you put it that way using a part of the country we already ruined to try and help us not ruin any more of it, it sounds like a damn good idea

    source
• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The lake is the major ecological impact, if you bother to read up on the background of that area.

  source

  • SwampYankee@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fun fact, the beach is made entirely out of barnacles and it smells like someone ate 10 pounds of salmon and then ripped ass straight up your nose. Don’t go in the water, you’ll die!

    source

    • TunaCowboy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was there about twenty years ago, the banks were made up of rotting marine life (mostly fish) 12 - 18 inches deep.

      source

      • SwampYankee@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The barnacles must be a more recent phenomenon, I was there a couple years ago. There were still fish skeletons lying around, but mostly this:

        Image

        source
• Gregorech@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Consider the lake isn’t supposed be there in the first place…

  source
• Nudding@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, we have to mine and destroy as much of the world as we can before the collapse, its the human way :)

  source
• Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The entire thing is a lesson in the hubris of man. It was created as a major ecological impact of a failed engineering project. It’s being destroyed by irrigation.

  source