The 'white gold rush': Inside a lithium mine, where stores of recyclable energy lie | Nightline
The 'white gold rush': Inside a lithium mine, where stores of recyclable energy lie | Nightline
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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The production process looks disgusting
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.
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.
Come on keep flower and don’t use lithium that would otherwise promote gasoline fueled cars putting the earth more at risk. Bigger picture is to dig out lithium to save the world in a speedy way n replace combustion engine
This wont end well for us
Why do we care about a desert flower?
Biden is an idiot
We need to destroy the earth’s crust to save the environment
Its just a flower.
Drive an electric car.
Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about Stanley Myer’s water powered car… oh wait… water is free… oil, gas, and lithium costs money and can be ripped out of the earth by mega-corporations to distract us from better alternatives… fuckers…
What happens when there isn’t enough water?
Lithium carbonate is now going for $65,000 per ton. Kinda want to drive up to those pools with a couple of 5 gallon buckets and walk away with a quick $3,000 dollars.
The electric car is probably equal damaging to this planet if not more. It really makes me sad how people are not understanding the science of this.
Omg, americans are so decadent
It’s a good thing the American government is involved, that we we know everything we are told is true and good for us. when I hear democrats say something I immediately start looking the opposite direction for truth.. this will end up like the oil wars we have invited ourselves into in the name of “help” for other countries. Oh, and thanks for wearing your masks alone in the desert idiots. Your saving the world !!!
I’ll be packing my bags soon on my way to sunny Nevada.
You are not welcomed in Thacker Pass Nevada
You talk like lithium isnt toxic. Go ahead and use it for your facial than.
does the southwest need 4.6 million gallons of fresh clean water every day or a tesla they cannot afford? Thacker Pass has been thrown open to digging a deep pit mixing our water with acid so the rich can drive a fancy car. When the Quinn River gives out they will keep drawing from the aquifer.
touching underground aquifers is "not using otherwise unused water resources"? 😳
I stoped watching once I saw they were wearing masks in the Nevada desert with just two people out there. Then the climate crisis lie started. Lame hippie propaganda. Thought it would be more educational.
Nurses the plant and propagate as many as you while mining to have plant stock to replant as the mine is recovered back to a natural landscape.
its probably done in other countries because its cheaper there, and no one wants to destroy your own backyard.
Guess who ain’t getting lithium for free??🤣
its a goddamn flower…99% of every species that has existed on this planet has gone extinct and these people want to see the country fall behind economically to safe every damn plant, insect or whatever the hell their privileged life has led to believe is worth saving.
Soft men create hard times….
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.
"We just have to get the technology" says an American. How did we get to this point?
"Critical to fight climate change"
What a retard
And Noone talk about the Litium farming in Kongo where about 15000 children is working the mines….. the big companies chose to look the other way….
He laughted when she said "facial" lol
If I could I would. But I won’t
Lithium is a nessersery layer that the earth needs it works the same for our earth as it does on humanity. It really needs to go organic biofuels machines that fart that feed the plants. We should never destroy any of the earths nessersery elemental layers when our evolution depended on them. There us so much science that still needs to catch up with our biological spaceship. You could grow so many types of organic biofuel without damaging the earths evolution. This is a quick attempt to fix a long term issue. We can grow all these elemental layers if we take the time to feed the earth and grow matter. 💚
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.
Hahahaahjaj move the plant . 300 homes in Brevard country have destroyed the indigenous saw grass palmetto in just one month
What’s up with the woke masks.
The only way mining will happen on a grand scale is when the US workers receives a wage lower than China. It will never happen. The USA is China’s belt loop boy.
Hydrogen
dont walk on the flower, just slowly drain its life out by lithium farming them LOL
This is propaganda … wake up folks you’re being conditioned to accept a different kind of planet destruction.
The Boring Company has not Killed one endangered species and certainly not this precious plant @5:13
To all you "professional" mining executives… Time to man up and hire a ProofRock from Elon and get this done by building a tunnel highway in the layers so rich in Lithium.
Open pits and ponds are Old school and silly. They use, outdated machines and stick humans in them to drive in a slot car track.
C’mon it’s 2022, ProofRock is real. It exists TODAY. Get it done.
Joe Biden literally cannot string a sentence together.
Does that weed have a human health benefit?
Bunch of BS over 85% of the lithium and cobalt comes from mining operations in Third World countries where they use child slaves in the mine chefs. I guess if that’s the kind of trade-off you’re looking for you can sell your soul for a walk conscience.
So just HOW is Biden going to cut our greenhouse gas emissions by 50% in just eight years???? Crash the economy of course. Close up shop.
Yeah and all your drinking water gets contaminated
Soon as terrorist figure out how to make the batteries in electric cars explode and cause major fatalities they will be bombs everywhere so the government can ban Lithium https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lithium+battery+explosion
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joe biden is destory our country more and more, also you left the big bad parts of lithium mining
Wassup with the catwalk? a model turned into reporter or a reporter turned into a model?