September 11, 20232 yr The land owner(s) gonna be rich... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12504841/Worlds-largest-lithium-deposit-McDermitt-Caldera-US.html 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
September 12, 20232 yr The article also states: "Over a year, producing 60,000 tons of lithium could devastate the surrounding environment - up to 30 million tons of earth needs to be dug. This is more than the annual amount of dirt dug up to produce all coal output of all but seven or eight US states In May 2016, dead fish were found floating in China's Liqi River, where a toxic chemical leaked from the Ganzizhou Rongda Lithium mine. Cow and yak carcasses were also found floating in the river, likely killed by drinking the contaminated water. Lithium extraction also harms the soil and causes air contamination." ******************** It also takes massive amounts of water, scarce in the desert locations where lithium ore is found, to extract the lithium from the ore. Massive amounts of waste is produced just to extract a small amount of lithium. The batteries also need cobalt, nickel, graphite, copper, manganese, steel, aluminum, and other materials. Many of these materials are not sourced from North America or Europe, but from countries such as China, South Africa, and Congo. Mining production will have to increase immensely in order to produce enough materials to make millions of EV batteries. This doesn't count the huge battery banks that are necessary for intermittent renewable sources of energy such as wind turbines and solar panels. Vast amounts of fossil fuel energy will be required to mine, refine, process, and produce the batteries, not to mention the production of big wind turbines and solar panels. This trend towards EVs and renewable energy seems to be inevitable, so I hope that more of the mining and production can be done in North America, Europe, and Japan, as opposed to other countries that are not so reliable and not so friendly. Recycling can recover much of the original source materials, so this needs to be ramped up on a huge scale. There is no free lunch. Dave Simulator: P3Dv6.1 System Specs: Intel i7 13700K CPU, MSI Mag Z790 Tomahawk Motherboard, 32GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Video Card, 3x 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 2280 SSDs, Windows 11 Home OS My website for P3D stuff: https://sites.google.com/view/thep3dfiles/home
September 12, 20232 yr Author Indeed. To be sure. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
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