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Liberal: my electric car is so clean bro, it uses tons of lithium but that's mined somewhere else, so it's okay.
Geologist: Lithium deposit in your backyard.
Liberal: Not in my backyard.
That's true for right wingers. They'll tell you "drill, baby, drill" but then they complain when you do it in their backyard instead of the middle east or a black neighborhood.
Exactly, and they should be held to the same standard too. If you're going to laugh at one side for saying something hypocritical, you should also laugh at the other side for saying something hypocritical as well.
There is no red, there is no blue, there is the state, and it hates you.
Saving this for my next Valentine poem 😄
Lithium is reusable like aluminum. Even if we stayed lithium batteries forever it’s fine since we wouldn’t have to mine much anymore. Most aluminum is recycled.
Assuming we keep using lithium for cars batteries, the day 90%+ of all new car batteries are recycled lithium will be a pretty cool moment. Decades away though.
They are literally already recycling EV batteries.
I know. To have 90% of new vehicles use recycled lithium requires 10s of millions of cars being old enough to be recycled to cover the 10s of millions of new cars being built that year.
Also many EV batteries will go to a 2nd life like stationary storage for longer before finally being recycled.
Its decades away.
Which is fine. Demand now drops future prices to the floor because the hard part is already done and there’s literally zero reason to do it again.
Lithium is not the most abundant part of a lithium ion battery, despite the name. It is very important but it is also very reusable. It can even, theoretically, be recycled. It will never be equivalent to oil. There's just not the same incentive to start wars over the thing.