The 'white gold rush': Inside a lithium mine, where stores of recyclable energy lie | Nightline
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Lithium powers many of our devices as well as electric vehicles. Western states are believed to hold an immense amount of the metal and some say it could help the U.S. reach its climate goals.
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I dont like how the Lithium miner at the pools danced around the question about the effect the mine has on the surroundings. He said essentially, this water was deep underground doing nothing, but we are taking it, exposing it and evaporating it away to obtain a useful resource; which had nothing to do with how the process could be leaching salts or other compounds into the environment
Do you make the same argument with water use for fracking?
@Kenneth Tham
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I wonder if extracting that water from deep underground could cause sinkholes.
The land is already a desert, there's a hard limit on biodiversity while being perfect for evaporation pools, and its established since the 70s so theres littler still to ruin there even with some expansion. Its salt-ground water... from running through huge lithium salt deposits running deeply in the earth, its saline and toxic to drink. The salt is already there, and indeed the flowers need it. Would you rather they mine the salt directly and make the whole area either a massive pit or trench, or excavate miles and miles and miles underground directly polluting this very water you worry for with oil-leaking digging equipment put to hard use?
Lithium isnt even the biggest problem with EV batteries, they're lithium-COBALT batteries.... Right now we get most of our cobalt from the Dem. Rep. of the Congo... served by child and prisoner labor in part, those mines are an ethical as well as ecological scar on their lands.... hopefully australia starts on their deposits hard, and soon.
@@Biblioholic1993 sorry but this is incorrect. New EV batteries don't have cobalt. More cobalt is used in refining gasoline for gas cars and for phone's batteries. EVs are not the cobalt problem
@5:35 she asks how long do they have ? He replies they have estimated 10 years to strip mine the area and were left with a giant hole in the ground with a pit of toxic lake water…. That seems to be good for the environment 👍🏼
Yeah, no mainstream media outcry. The only outcry is for CO2. I wonder why
Oil spills certainly are.
Dummes
@@mickyparker5594 dumbass
Love they are outside with a mask on😂😂😂
OMG! This is amazing, my dad started working and living in Silver Peak back in 1990. He was a heavy equipment operator which at the time was a job not many could do. He worked until 2006 when he passed from colon cancer.
Silver Peak is out in the middle of nowhere and the actual town is more ghosttown than not. Tonopah is the closest town with groceries and gas. Having visited my dad a few times I was always amazed at the remoteness. Fun fact: After silver was discovered the town of Silverpeak was born. It was actually the original capital of Nevada and at one time the most populous town in Nevada! There are only small remnants on a large hillside to mark where this boomtown once existed.
Anyway I miss my dad tremendously so its a pleasant surprise when I come across any info pertaining to Silverpeak and the lithium mine. A much appreciated walk down memory lane.
YourDad sounds like he was a rock star!
That’s awesome I flew across it last week and as curious if it was a lithium mine and then this popped up!
I built some process equipment for Foote Mineral at that site back in the '80's, based on Google Earth at least some of it is still in use. (last I checked tho they had suspended operations according to the website) Apparently it has now changed corporate hands, good to hear they are doubling production. I seriously doubt any such mining will occur in Cali as our state ran most mining out decades ago.
@@Mrbfgray hi Bo do you know if any new processes have been developed to extract lithium or are they using the same method?
@@michaelharrison3046 I'm not up to date but my guess would be the same primary methods at least, that is the ponds concentrate and drop various unwanted salts until Li salt is about to come out of solution then they pipe it into the mill. Hard to imagine any of that changing much.
I wouldn't be surprised if the mill had been upgraded a few times but it seemed to me a relatively simple process already, almost always a little room for at least tinkering around the edges of course. Assuming the vid is current--nice to see them still in operation.
Big error in this report.
Lithium batteries do not produce power to charge our phones. What it does do is store electricity produced elsewhere via coal, gas, hydro, nuclear, solar, wind, etc.
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These people are stupid. Your spot on. See the real affects of carbon footprint
*RIP Shock G, AKA Humpty Hump.* 😥
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Of all the resources we extract from the earth, lithium is far from the most damaging, but it is far from the benine process they want you to believe. The water, that he said has no impact on agriculture, comes from ever dwindling ground water reserves.
Yep Brine Pumping lithium is quite bad. But that is NOT the best method to obtain high quality lithium. The best method is old fashion open pit Mining of Dry Ore. This is known as HARD ROCK Lithium. That is one of the most cleanest and least water consuming processes. The biggest producers is freaking Arid Dry AUSTRALIA.
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This
Exactly! Which is why water near mining areas is drying up, but of course they are blaming it on climate change.
@@TheUniversalEyes it is most definitely climate change. We are drying up rivers, lakes and aquafers around the globe. Mining, agriculture, industry and neighborhoods all have to be thought of with this reality in mind.
Go back to land lines.
Don't need cell phones.
Don't need to be spied on.
Don't need lithium ion batteries.
Don't need land fills full of toxic batteries.
Um... *LITHIUM MAKES RECHARGABLE BATTERIES THE DISPOSABLE BATTERIES ARE THE ONES THAT FILL UP LANDFILLS AND THE LITHIUM BATTERIES MAKE LESS WASTE AND ARE RECYCLED*
@@insectbite1714 there may be one or 2 places recycling battries now some day more but you know us old folks don't like change.
I have no kids I don't care if your children die in a polluted world. I'll be dead soon any way
@@phillipjacobson4457 all you want is ignorance
@@insectbite1714 dead battries that stop working some times end up in land fills if the person using the battery throws it in the dumpster rather then being responsible and placing said dead battery in a recycle bin. So eventually a lot of lithium battries end up in land fills, despite all efforts of others to do the right thing and recycle.
Humans are rebellious.
@@phillipjacobson4457 Put a recycling charge on the batteries when they are bought new and paid back when they are turned in for recycling and the throwing away will end. You will have people dumpster diving to find lithium batteries to turn in and collect the money for just like it was for aluminum cans.
So what you're saying is...
Invest in lithium
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I’d like to be around in 100 years to witness the travesty that this will have on the environment.
Well, the Salton Sea is also another source of lithium and when developed could provide 1/3 of the lithum production.
It took until 1800 for the world population to reach one billion people, the second billion took 113 years. The world population is closing in on eight billion people. Our biggest issue is never really discussed. Over population and the fight over natural resources will get very ugly.
@@mtadams2009 I believe world leaders have a plan for that as well.
@@pepperfreak4780 yeah they do, and its called, covid vaccine. 😆
And to participate in the cleanup.
This is very much a one sided report, practically free advertising for the mega mine corp. No mention of the water source or environmental issues outside of the a native flower.
Why can't the miner raise a few thousand Tiehm’s buckwheat plants in a nursery? This seems like a poor balance of costs and benefits.
Well said sir
Right?? This is such poor, superficial coverage of this issue. No mention if there are any mitigation agreements in place, just a black and white presentation that will make most people assume that it’s with the tradeoff to sacrifice rare flower for lithium. The mining company couldn’t have asked for more favorable coverage 😂
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They have to raise the price of fossil fuels in order to make mining for lithium profitable.
Renewable energy, my ass. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Lee Priest we need to stop being greedy and reduce. A lot. Do you not understand lithium is both toxic and finite? Do you know how cobalt is mined? We need less technology and energy dependence.
@Lee Priest my logic isn't flawed. I want and a return to the land and very little energy use. I don't want gas, coal, or deisel either. I never said I support that stuff. And you can recycle the lithium IF you get it out of the proprietary batteries, which isn't easy or happening much. Plus, there's more to the battery than just lithium. There's a lot of production energy, waste, chemicals, child labor, and environmental damage. Reduction solves our environmental problems and forces us to do something together other than smash our phone keys, play our games, watch tvs ... might even help our humanity a little.
Absolutely
Is just a business
The impact of the lithium mining is BIG
Straight morons. “Recyclable” energy unbelievable how deceptive these clowns are!!! Lithium is toxic, we’ve gotten pretty good with oil why the huge rush to try and end it??? Hmmmmm one must think deeper about all of this
compared to gas and oil it is. Lithium can be recycled and reused indefinitely unlike fossil fuels.
That's great and all but everybody is forgetting that most of the power to charge batteries come from natural gas or coal. We should be building more nuclear power plants.
But then it creates a lot more nuclear waste
even running off coal, an EV still emits less a gas car, you still come out ahead over the lifespan of the car. this is because electric motors are *much* more efficient at turning energy into motion than a gas car is. for example, one gallon of gas has about 24kwh of energy in it- that's the size of a battery in an older nissan leaf, and those could go around 100 miles on a charge- so like, 100mpg equivalent.
that said: absolutely yes, if we want to get serious about climate change, we need to build nuclear out asap to completely get us off fossil fuels for electricity *now* and then work on transitioning to renewables once the crisis is over
Nuclear waste is VERY difficult to process into nontoxic material but it can be done with a species of fungus. We just need to figure out how to do it large scale.
@@PK1312 1gallon of gas = 6lb=33.7kwh that's more energy in the mass of the 1st gen Nissan leaf battery.
@@PK1312 exactly like jfc ppl
India has found world's third largest reserve of lithium 5.9 million tons
7:10 The two things that made the report for me: 1. Her asking the right questions and 2. him, as the party who is concerned with protecting the wildlife, admitting that this may actually be the better option for the planet and that endangering that species may be a price worth paying. Also that ioneer chairman dude couldn't possibly look less untrustworthy to environmentalists.
You can't trust anything our government has its hands on.
@@chrisfenner5949 There is currently bad weather where I live.
With this potato in office nothing will get done. we can see that from his first year.
@Survival Monkey
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The reporter is gold plating the facts. Nothing is said about how dirty a process lithium mining is. Whether it's strip mining or evaporation ponds lithium mining leaves behind either a large ugly hole in the ground or polluted surface from those ponds. This is nothing but a phony story to support a narrative.
Doesn't lithium cause cancer
everything does
Had to laugh when reporter said should we do it properly here in US rather than getting it from Australia.
If she bothered to do her research properly she would have known that Ioneer is an Australian company.
This looks like a sales pitch.
Lithium batteries are VERY EASILY recyclable. People always forget that. We dont have the capacity yet but its a very easy process that recovers 99% of lithium.
And the equipment to mine then could be electrical as well,
Giant drillers, and lifters, maybe even electrical mining trucks are possible.
It's just an idea but I don't see why what that wouldn't be possible
Please post me a link to your sources
@@yzrippin
Here's 'one'
You're an idiot if you think that. Easily recyclable? Where does the energy for that come from? How efficient is the process?
@@yzrippin Redwood Materials Inc recycles lithium at a profit. Company was started by a former Tesla executive.
So that's what clean energy looks like.
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With the best (present) seperation tech, you can recycle approx 95% of a lithium battery.
Recylcing batteries is too expensive. The only thing worth recycling lithium batteries for companies like Umicore was the cobalt. Today's batteries do not contain enough cobalt to recycle them, so batteries end up on a landfill next to the solar panels.
Redwood materials is a start up to focus on recycling lithium from old batteries.
What separation tech? :D Recyclers can't even separate bottle caps from the plastic bottle itself, it cost too much :D to chemically separate the cobalt and nickel from a Lithium battery will take an amazing about of energy and chemicals :D you live in Fairy land and Gold dust, get real .................
@@ABC-uy4fw so is Tesla and get this, Koch Industries is looking into it too.
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Drilling into the ground, to extract a resource that everyone needs to use. It's funny how everyone here is praising this. I wonder if everyone feels the same about drilling oil.. "a resource ectraced from the ground, and is used in everything."
well, it *is* definitely LESS harmful than oil drilling and use... but yes, lithium mining has serious environmental impact. the bigger issue i think though is actually cobalt, which is almost always mined under, essentially, slavery. we really need a new battery technology that doesn't rely on such a rare resource and destructive extraction to use
Kurt Cobain loved this documentary. RIP
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America Lithium also is starting a mine in Peru where there are very few environmental protections. They are a publicly traded company too on the NYSE, with investors, relying on this mine to meet their bottom line.
Still, with no appropriate environmental protections, 100 wells plus more are confirmed to have already been completed according to the company’s July, 2022 shareholder meeting, on a video posted on you tube - check out around minute 33:33 and see what the CEO says, pretty much, that we could be using Sodium Ion batteries instead of Lithium. Sodium Ion batteries use salt and graphite, not Lithium, I’m pretty sure no Cobalt, either. SO, why is this Lithium being pushed on everyone, just like in the past with other industries...
What green plan??? This is not green!!!
I feel like Curtis Armstrong needs to be on top of this lithium mountain telling John Cusack, “do you KNOW what the street value of this mountain is? I think I froze 1/2 of my body”.
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I don't think this is the answer, the reason why is batteries don't last, they go bad, so that's a problem, you'll never stop digging up the earth and destroying it. There are revolutionary breakthroughs by using simply, water, (hydrogen) emissions free and regenerative solar extraction processes. Why not utilize water, which is free from the sky, oceans, etc. And simply falls back down to earth again.
California regulations, all lithium batteries tested are classified hazardous due to excessive levels of cobalt (average 163 544 mg/kg; σ = 62 897; limit 8000), copper (average 98 694 mg/kg; σ = 28 734; limit 2500), and nickel (average 9525 mg/kg; σ = 11 438; limit 2000) Is this really all about being environmentally friendly and what is good for the earth? Are these altruistic intentions? If it is, then you are going in the wrong direction and evidence shows you are making the wrong choice.
How can I get a job in this field.I’m willing to travel and also speak Spanish.If anyone can give me a direction please do so.I worked on the production side of oilfield but I’m more for saving the Earth so if this helps then I’m willing to do my part.
Adios ✋
@@mikebooth5942 😂😂 that was gold
How does strip mining help save the earth?
@Rl Lr how does woke Marxist renewable energy help save the earth. jts all about controlled demolition of western living standards, 3rd world UN wealth transfers, and neo Marxist government control
@@ericboxer3053 comment reported for saying lies that have no support helping them
"Farming Lithium" HILARIOUS.
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How is lithium recycled? Are we going to poison our water system and soil?
Won't the left over other poisonous minerals and metals pulled up with the lithium during the mining process blow away and poison the air for those in the area???
Lithium mining kills the miners
*TANSTAAFL*
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
Robert Heinlein,
*The Moon is a Harsh Mistress*
These documentaries about Lithium mining/ production always seem to leave out the medical (psychiatric) applications of this amazing element. What about the millions of people who depend on a daily supply of Lithium carbonate to stabilize their moods? I'm one of those people. I have bipolar disorder. Lithium helps keep my head on straight. So... what happens to us mood disordered souls when the Lithium supply runs out? It's not like I can run out and eat my neighbor's electric car battery and be on my merry way...
how much child labor will I need for the most amount of profit?
Let's not pretend this is a good thing. Take a good hard look at the places that have been doing this for years. I did
Not using “water” that can be used for agriculture...... this country has gone bat shut crazy
This water is so salty that it would destroy crops. Can’t be used for agriculture.
Shut it down
It’s not like the water is lost. It re-enters the water cycle where it can find it’s way to crops. And they don’t want Lithia Water for their fields. This is an amazing use of water. The device you posted this on needed a mine like this. The crops will be fine, use your head
@@HieronymousLex tainted water for your crops 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@Zachary_333 wow, you really aren’t that smart are you? You don’t understand evaporation? It doesn’t seem like you grasp what we’re talking about at all
You lost me when you said over tens of thousands of years for nature to collected all the lithium in that valley. Wrong
The latest battery power tools all use lithium battery. They are expensive af and can be heavy but they get the job done. The latest cordless framing guns are amazing.
yep, you can find nickel ones on older models
Most of that weight is probably the motor, which could segway the topic over to neodymium, another precious resource.
@@rmarbertin8131 yeah, possibly the gearbox too, batteries really only become a weight problem when you go into bigger sizes, electric cars per example
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@@rosariolivatinomartirdajus1480 good I would love to visit
Funny how they didn't mention bolivia, and elon support coup etat there
No
Bolivians lost their chances to be a lithium rich version of Saudi Arabia.. Dummies
@@MS-37 let me guess you white?
All that water what about the environment
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So atomic bomb sites of old?
Lithium mining is worse for the environment than fossil fuels
So "technically", that water _could_ be used for agriculture instead, if for some reason food and water becomes more important than e-vehicles, or perhaps de-desertification, for the carbon capturing benefits of good old fashioned plant plants.
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I don't think that there is going to be any sustainable agriculture in the Nevada desert.
It's a saline aquifer. So you'd have to go through an energy intensive process to desalinate it, first.
@@FirstKingPotato You need to check again when it comes to agriculture in Nevada. You make a statement without knowing anything about it Nevada is rich in agriculture.
You dont wanna terraform. Leave deserts as deserts.
Wait until Albermarle buys out or does a joint venture with Cypress development!! Their neighbour!!
They're already in buy-out discussions with CYPRESS!
@@royalcitysax exciting news!! when did that happen?? Any expected NR on this?
C.SPMT
Need to see a comparison of fracking for oil and this brine water lithium. Wonder what happens to insects and animals that have contact with these large bodies of toxic water.
I have worked both. Currently working at Silver Peak. Little do people know. The process of getting the lithium is actually fracking… the footprint of oil vs lithium is much larger in lithium than oil.
@@corbinlamonica9909 interesting. climate change cartel will try to spin lithium extraction as wayyy better then oil.
How many cell phones have you owned in the last 5 years.
Where did they end up.
What about thenTRUE carbon footprint
@@RM-lk1so carbon footprint. Lol. Call china and tell them to stop being the biggest polluter of alltime. Good luck.
I thought white gold was coke😂
Environmentalists that care about only flowers should be locked out of the future.
Clean lithium... suuuuuure
Your profile picture makes a reference to the most polluting company on earth. I don't want to hear it.
@@insectbite1714 his picture is in refrence to an astronomer genius GTFO
How much diesel fuel will be used for mining?
Hey they shut down the timber jobs for the spotted owl you shut this mine down for plants too it's fair
Owls NEED trees to live. Owls are more important cuz timber expands and never stops being cut down while mines have a limit to expansion. Helping the plant
its probably done in other countries because its cheaper there, and no one wants to destroy your own backyard.
It’s not the source of the power, just a store.
All the machines used are diesel powered, oh the irony
Why not build a facility/warehouse and copy the habitat (actually take the soil from Silver Peak) and grow the plant there? Also at the facility harvest the seeds of that plant and store them there. Once the reclamation is done reseed the area with seeds. If that fails then at least the species will survive in the facility.
@David Clark 4.2 billion years ago (the age of Earth's oldest existing rocks), the Earth was a hellish place full of magma everywhere and hot. They is evidence in these oldest rocks that life and photosynthesis existed - creating oxygen from CO2 and sunlight.
--- Is that what should have been preserved. Is this the pristine environment for Earth that should have been preserved. A hellish hot place where life could barely exist?
And seriously. What is the rest of the Countries around the world doing. Why do the American workers have to FLIP the bill on all the world issues.
I'm fkn sick of Always having to have all our tax dollars get siphoned off and Laundered off as a good deed.
Liar. Fresh Water and Ground Water are our biggest scarce resource concerns right now.
Go on ABC, tell us where the water comes from (and how much), to fill up giant lithium pools in a desert.
So let me get this right -we are holding up a process that could help revolutionize our economy and provide a whole new "green" industry within our country so that we can protect a bunch of glorified weeds that sit in a desert where no one lives.. This is why people vote for politicians like Trump.
Yeah because we should be protecting the environment. You know. That one thing that green energy supporters claim to be supporting. You can't claim to support something when you are playing a part in destroying it. Look up lithium mines in Africa if you want to see the harsh truth behind lithium mining, and where most of the lithium around you comes from.
@@philiplapierre9776 environmentalists can't have their cake and eat it too. If you don't develop the lithium industry here it gets outsourced to other places where I imagine they are doing more then destroying some local weeds. If we get the opportunity to develop lithium here we reap the economic benefits and just as important we.can innovate the process and make lithium mining less harmful to the environment. It may not be a perfect system -. When it comes to energy production you will never have a perfect system.
Is that supposed to be a positive or negative Trump remark?
@@GKHTS I didn't vote for Trump but unfortunately the grass is not greener on the other side
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Where are they getting this water, where does the "WASTE" go ?where are the birds, animals, lizards? Who was the "SELL OUT" THAT APPROVED THIS, AND WHAT WAS THE KICK BACK??
the water is already there, underground and saturated with lithium salt, they are simply pumping it to the surface to evaporate and leave behind the lithium salt.
They clean the water more than they contaminate it
If you helps your conscience, take a drink!
So creating an ecological disaster is good for the environment now, how does that work exactly?
What happens when there isn't enough water?
I've learned of way too many white materials/etc. now and now I'm afraid I need to learn how to test something white to see what kind of substance it is. There are drugs that are white. Salt. Baking Powders. Now this Lithium. There are probably even more white grainy and powdery substances too and that is going to become way too confusing to discern easily with just looking at them all. I'm also concerned about this area and what it looks like, how desolate it is there. No structures built to provide shade. How do the workers survive in that no man's land? I wouldn't put up with that crap and I'd make sure they construct some survival structures around there before starting a work life in that area.
They way they produce this gives me the impression that they expect a simple minded audience
Save the flower. Eriogonum rocks. Bestest genus of 'em all.
CPBBD!
AND STUDY FUNGUS! 🍄🍄🍄
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Mother Nature creating lithium dumps? That’s logical
Realistically... that one variety of desert "flower" is irrelevant to the "environment."
Do it in America, or else the price will rise like anything else.
6:25 This man wants to stop the electric transition which will save thousands of species to save a flower, what a legend.
Same guy wearing a mask out in the desert in the middle of nowhere. Liberal logic overloads the mind
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When it evaporates it rains back down
Why are these people wearing masks outside?
My question would be where or what do they do with these batteries once a vehicle/phone/or computer is no good? Because these batteries aren't biodegradable. And all these batteries can't be recycled especially after an accident or damage.
There are actually a lot of new companies that recycle used lithium, but development is still in early stages. IIRC, they've been able to recover 80% capacity in some cases. Development of new batteries is also advancing rapidly, so this is the best time to begin developing US-based lithium mining and battery production. 👍
@@tcohmemsyy appreciate the feedback
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All it takes is 1 emp and all of usa is back to stone age lol
It would be unreal with nothing moving for just the first week alone much less months and years. Cities would be real scary after an EMP attack.
Here's a challenge. Up production by 1000%. Then make a new video about how good it is for the climate. "We can regulate that" what u gone do? Meter lithium battery sales?
It's comical how they spin this type of mining or land devastation for this particular natural resource as good. The title should have been "where stories of recyclable energy lie".
The most corrupt people, hold the most power.
Thank you Patrick Donnelly ..... good gob
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Forget that flower!! You care so much about it you would relocate and reformulated a way for it to grow else where!!
Literally thousands of plants animals and insects go extinct every day
New species are also found everyday
Releasing toxic water is eco friendly sure
Is the lithium mine smelly? They are covering thier noses with fabric.
Well it belongs to the original Americans not to the occupying force 🙄
It would seem losing one rare flower few have ever heard of would be a small price to pay. But where do we draw the line on small prices? Lithium ION batteries need cobalt, much of which comes from a country in Africa, where children 10 or 11 years old have worked mining for cobalt. It's extremely unhealthy for them, and the pay is very low. Around a dollar or two a day. That would seem to be more than a small price. While the US and some other countries would not use child labor, some other countries will have no problem with it.
That flower feeds bees and birds and butterflies. We act like they don’t matter and that will be mankind’s demise.
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Wo wo wo. America is gonna reinact child labor. Why. Bc all of the adults who are strung out on fentanyl. The Elites want this.
"green energy" that requires 500,000 gallons of water to produce 1 ton of product.
The 'water is brine that has no other use. As it evaporates maybe it will come down as rain on someplace that needs it.
@@steven4315 where do they pump the water from? Brine aquifers? Or fresh water aquifers?
@@notyourmama4166 Think about that for a minute. If you pump out fresh water there ain't gonna be any lithium in it. From what I can see this method is better than open pit mines, not as good as the Salton Sea process. We do a lot of resource extraction to maintain our lifestyle. The good news is lithium batteries do recycle and at a profit.
You had me until 3:25, at which time you showed the potato-head reading the teleprompter.
Why does the flower matter if the reason this video is shot is to let us know we'll be using up lithium, uh good bye flower anyway, dont get me wrong I love nature but this video is about technology
Cypress Development's clay project has the potential to be one of the largest, and most sustainable lithium operations in the Silver Peak area. Albemarle's operations will produce about 8,000 tonnes per year, after their expansion. Cypress Development is aiming to produce 27,400 tonnes per year, with the option to increase it up to three times according to management. Exciting times for Silver Peak!
ALB should BUY OUT CYPRESS!!!
Also Cypress is developing a new way to process the lithium with no hydrochloric acid so it will be even better for the enviroment! Huge!
@@br1mf Exactly!! CYPRESS will REVOLUTIONIZE the Lithium mining industry!
Stick with coal and oil baby!! love my high emissions vehicle
Buy SPMT
But that plant suppose to be in lithium rich soil. What is population growth?
I say F that flower, and open the option for thousands of jobs in THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE anyway. Perfect place to dig!!!
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how is that people have no common sense as to how harmful li-ion is to the environment :/
And the environment never recovers.
So we why do we care about that one flower species? Like is it really that important?
Doh! Sodium-ion batteries killed the Lithium battery.
Why should our inefficiencies destroy us? What kind of business models are we doing? Reduce, Reuse, Rethink, Restore.
I needed this job
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So let destroy the water and will it full of horrible chemical waste for these EVs.
still destroy the earth to save the world?
You can't produce it enough without an intermediate step like natural gas.
Sorry dreams it ain't happening
Gee this reporter isn’t biased or anything. We need to onshore production to make sure it’s done right??? Did the mining company pay her to say that or what?? 😆
They should capture the evaporated pure water, seems wasteful otherwise
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