Comment on AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium

• AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes do look into it. There are MANY ways to harvest lithium and most are better than what the oil and gas companies does when fracking or drilling on land.

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  • Pirasp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Being better than one of the most destructive industries ever is not a high bar. But the most effective way to harvest lithium remains an open pit mine, which are arguably worse than literally anything else.

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    • AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      which are arguably worse than literally anything else.

      Going to argue it isn’t as bad as shale / oil sands projects.

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      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I thought it was all or almost all of the metals?

        There’s other non metals that wouldn’t be but all the lithium is for example?

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    • AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Making an improvement for something that can be recycled and thus should REDUCE over time is a a MASSIVE improvement over doing nothing and bitching about it.

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  • magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The less we need of it, the better either way.

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    • AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It can be recycled… Unlike the oil and gas used up in ICE cars.

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  • DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know who told you that being second worst is a flex, but it’s not.

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• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s only greater than the supply because the demand for more wasn’t there.

  There’s so much Lithium out there, it’s not scarce at all. It just means we gotta put resources into looking for good deposits and then extracting it.

  If we can find something that works as well and it’s as or more environmentally friendly to obtain, then that’s great too.

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• Geobloke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I work in a lithium mine, we make big rocks into little rocks the same as any other. What’s the problem? Unless you’re against mining in general, hard rock lithium should be fine

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