Good, the children yearn for the lithium mines. /s
Maybe I should re-train from computer programmer to lithium miner?
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.
The federal government invades that state for “peace and freedom”
bet it’s inside a national park that the GOP just exposed through government rollbacks.
If only there was information in the post about where it is then you wouldn’t have to guess. Or you can just make stuff up to get mad at.
I bet it’s like the one discovered in Portugal which is of a mineral form of it for which there is no technology to industrially extract the lithium.
In other words, about as feasible as “we can extract all the <insert mineral> we want from sea water”.
What happened to the last 2.5t lithium deposit? Also these deposits are just the tech to extract ever smaller amounts of valuable material from waste material right? Like oh this land has 0.0001% lithum percent but now that is profitable because advances in valuables extraction, if we crator this region.
China isn’t special to have high concentration deposits they are special because no one is going to stop them from digging up hundreds of square/km of Earth in Africa.
China’s special for controlling a very high proportion of the processing infrastructure that converts the lithium ore to batteries, rather than the extraction. There are a bunch of places that have substantial known lithium reserves.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/lithium-reserves-by-country
Country Lithium Reserves 2024 (MT) Chile 9.3M Australia 7M Argentina 4M China 3M United States 1.8M Canada 1.2M Zimbabwe 480K Brazil 390K Portugal 60K Namibia 14K Total 27.2M Australia does the most extraction:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/lithium-production-by-country
Has anyone done the ‘US invades itself’ joke yet?
Oil-backed GOP will make sure it doesn’t get developed until next century. “Buy oil instead you losers!”
Who is going to invade USA this time ?
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.
Really depends on the use case. Grid-scale storage? Yeah, there’s better chemistries for that. Cars? We’re probably going to see a mix of chemistries in the same battery packs to tailor use case. In personal electronics? No, lithium will remain king
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.
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.
A periodic table doesnt dictate marginal rate of return on mining the element.
Consult a periodic table on which element conducts electricity best and then explain why copper is the most commonly used metal for wires.
Sodium is better in the more important ways than lithium.
Either state WTF you are talking about or find a better way to waste people’s time.
I wrote it on other comments. I’m not here to summarize the internet for you.
I’m not here to summarize the internet for you.
Fair, but how about you instead justify your point? That seems like a more reasonable ask.
I wrote it on other comments.
I’m not here to aggregate your content for you.
Wood is cheaper than steel. Which apparently is the most important way to be better in. But I wouldn’t build a skyscraper out of it.
Saying that energy density is not important in energy storage technology is as stupid as saying that material strength is not important in building materials.
You know there are skyscrapers built out of wood, right? And they’re kind of awesome.
I searched for “tallest wooden building” there actually is a list in wikipedia of the tallest buildings.
The tallest of the list is not even a building, it’s a radio tower. At ~110m.
The closest city to me that has a skyscraper has a single skyscraper, and it is >150m tall.
I would not build a skyscraper out of wood.
in the more important ways
This is HIGHLY dependent on use case
Yes you may quote me, if you really need it.
Or leave it. For reasonable people, it is obvious anyway.
I already quoted you. I don’t need your permission to do it.
If you’re not gonna even try to defend your position you’re just spreading misinformation.
LMAO
Have you not been paying attention to the development of sodium batteries? They are already surpassing LithIon batteries in energy density and cost.
Cost, yes, energy density, very much no.
So good for grid storage, bad for vehicles?
Yes. Chinese manufacturers are using sodium batteries in some low-range cheap city-cars, too. But fundamentally there is less energy storage in a charged sodium atom than a charged lithium atom so it seems sodium batteries must always be bigger and heavier than equivalent-capacity lithium batteries.
But fundamentally there is less energy storage in a charged sodium atom than a charged lithium atom so it seems sodium batteries must always be bigger and heavier than equivalent-capacity lithium batteries.
Well the battery chemistry will always include much more than just the loose charge carrier of Na+ or Li+ or whatever cation floating around. It’s always a suitable cathode material made from other elements, too. Lithium ion batteries in cars today have cathodes mostly of high performance lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxides (NMC) or cheaper/more stable lithium iron phosphate (LFP).
The dominant sodium ion chemistry hitting mass production now uses Prussian Blue Analogues for the cathode (made from a 3d matrix out of sodium, plus a metal like iron/manganese/nickel, plus cyanide made from carbon and nitrogen).
Plus even separately from the raw chemistry of the battery, built in mechanisms for durability or longevity or charge cycles or thermal management or safety or other material properties may change the overall weight of the battery for any particular performance characteristics.
In the end, the performance of the entire battery is what matters, and lithium’s head start in less weight per cation may one day be overcome if the overall materials involved can be lighter in some as-yet commercialized sodium ion chemistry.
Not exactly, they work better in cold temps for northern countries.
That doesn’t stop sodium batteries from being fundamentally bigger and heavier than lithium batteries for the same capacity. That just means the tradeoff can be more worth it in some regions
And awful for phones
Not necessarily bad for cars. Some vehicles can use just sodium batteries. Some companies are looking at making battery packs with mixed cell types in different ratios to get a best of both worlds for their use case. Sodium sucks for personal electronics though
More likely that most batteries are made from lithium recycled from old batteries rather than mined lithium.
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. 😒
if China figured out efficient electrolysis and powered all their stuff using hydrogen
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1004
North sea windmills will be generating hydrogen from wind electricity.
Sounds like america could use some freedom
Bring us some democracy while you’re at it.
Sounds like it’s time to bring the U.S some Freedom! 😎🪖🕊️
Oh good, more earth to pillage.
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
My understanding is these come with density issues. Basically they need significantly more space. Definently should be scalable for most utilities. Although some in more urban contexts may struggle to find the space initially. Maybe old fossil fuel plants can be refitted.
Not useful for at home systems either, but I hope they continue to improve to that point
Iirc if proper safety is employed for lithium ion, the density difference is negligible.
I see so many of those disposed of on the street near a vape store and it drives me nuts.
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.
Why is it never in MY yard???
You own the mineral rights of your backyard?
Simple trick to claim the mineral rights of your own backyard. You just need to flip own yard and house upside down! Then the minerals are not under your yard but above it! Checkmate lawyers.
Of course, you’ll also need to sign a writ of mineralis claimies with your signature written in a patriotic crossword. Then include a stamp of George Washington where you have drew him a sensible toupee. Make sure to use red ink or the blood of goblin to draw the toupee, goblin preferred.
I’d like to say yes, but I’m not going to check. Too much effort to look through all my documents.
Let me give you some bad news: that’s no way in hell
Have you tried planting greener grass?
I would if I could buy a house. 40k in the bank. Good credit. 7 years at my current job. Still can’t get a 155k house.
The 75k townhouse won’t sell, and won’t tell me why. Been trying to buy a house for 5 years. Now I’m being told I need to wait another year.
So this past month I’ve just given up. Nothing matters.
Where in the US is there a 155k house??
The midwest.
Crackton, Detroit.
Uhhh what? You should easily be able to get a house with that much down. There’s something you’re not telling us.
Agreed. I bought a $300k house with half that guys down-payment. I kicked myself because I easily could have bought sooner and got much more house for my money.
and got much more house for my money.
And have way more debt as well
No, i would have been able to buy a bigger home for nearly the same price due to the rapid increase in home prices. My neighbor had sold their home just a year or two prior for about $15k more than we wound up paying for ours, but the home is almost double the square footage.
Still happy with our purchase overall as even apartment rentals in the area are higher than what we’re paying in the few years since we bought.
As someone who has 30k in the bank and qualified for multiple 350k loans with the lenders implying I’d be good for more, this mames no sense.
As someone who has 30k in the bank and qualified for multiple 350k loans
Don’t trust those lenders. They want you in more debt than you should take on because it makes them more money
They’re reputable local credit unions, not predatory lenders, and 30k is more than a 5% down payment, even after closing costs.
I suppose the unknown here is income, as in my current position making 100kUSD/yr, I’d have absolutely no problem making payments on a 20 year or even a 15 year loan, even if I do end up with a house near the top of my budget, which I’d rather stay well under of course. That said, A $150k house seems like it’d be no problem for that commenter based on their savings making up a >20% down payment.
If it makes you feel better, I’m 100k in the hole on the one I bought in 2021, and can’t even afford to sell it.
You’re saying you don’t qualify for a mortgage?
I qualify for a mortgage, but they want to capme out around 100k.
And the houses in this area were built in the 1800s-1930s. So a 100k house is going to have massive repairs needed that you’ll easily spend another 200k on.
Literally every house I’ve been shown has been “well this one needs an all new roof, and foundation” before you even see the property.
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.
