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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Any mining has a catastrophic effect on the planet for multiple decades anywhere so none of it is good. Huna.s are the most destructive wasteful species on this planet
California and Nevada could really use that water
Climate change lololol
BIDEN IS WOTHLESS AF
How is lithium recycled? Are we going to poison our water system and soil?
How much diesel fuel will be used for mining?
They’re not “farming” lithium, they’re extracting it. It’s a filthy, polluting business, ecologically-speaking
let’s go brandon
Lithium mining is worse for the environment than fossil fuels
So we why do we care about that one flower species? Like is it really that important?
And the environment never recovers.
Anybody ever tried to extinguish a lithium ion battery fire?? Let me know how it goes
Your supposed electric vehicle, runs on electrity generated mostly by COAL and NATURAL GAS.
I find this tradeoff to be a very easy decision to make. How does 50,000 electric cars/year sound? Apparently horribly destructive because this one barely living flower has a slight chance of going extinct in a mile radius.
Hello friends, does your company provide lithium ore and copper ore supply? I come from China.
Lies and more propaganda
one little flower ? really… leaching will affect all your ground water over millions of acres, poisoning everything, not just 1 plant and the called professional expert perfect means of treatment ? right…. where have you heard that before… they lie so they can profit, they will kill to profit like they already do!
Literally thousands of plants animals and insects go extinct every day
Just go ahead and destroy biodiversity for the preservation of homosapiens. That’s what is going to happen. Stop talking about it, pretending that any item in nature won’t be sacrificed for the dominant species. Just break out the hula-hoe and extinct this species of flower in the Nevada desert.
India has found world’s third largest reserve of lithium 5.9 million tons
Truth.anout your electric crap
https://youtu.be/CIWvk3gJ_7E
It’s not the source of the power, just a store.
This is the answer? One of the criticisms of lithium-ion batteries has long been that they cannot be recycled, that each new battery therefore requires fossil-fuel-powered energy-intensive mining of metals such as lithium, nickel, manganese and cobalt.
Virtually everything has petroleum in it. We need many sources of everything for many things. There are too many people being born and most of them suffer, struggle because of the sexual urges of box sexes and social constructs. A social construct is a concept that exists not in objective reality, but as a result of human interaction. It exists because humans agree that it exists.
How about a social construct where most people agree that we need less house, less cars, trucks, less of all material things, less, less and more efficient of these lesser things?
Contraception and less humans will solve most problems within 50 years. How about getting the human population down at least 50% in 50 years by not having children or having fewer. Most people can think of other ways of making life less of a struggle. I certainly do not have all the answers.
this is not the answer to our problems
Really? Who gives a crap about some weed looking plant.🙄
They are so smart they wear a face mask outside all by themselves.
With water being such a precious commodity, Why do we just waste it?
Man made climate change is a farce, Nevada used to be 1/3 giant lake did man made climate change cause the lake to go away? Death Valley used to be a giant lake did man made climate change cause it to go away?
Forget that flower!! You care so much about it you would relocate and reformulated a way for it to grow else where!!
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…
By taking all the minerals from the earth worldwide how is that helping the environment the planet
But that plant suppose to be in lithium rich soil. What is population growth?
imagine wearing a mask in the middle of a dessert .-.–.-.-
Wow, using Biden as a science expert has totally convinced me. So did wearing masks when you were alone in the nevada desert. Covid is just that dangerous, large empty deserts spread it horrendously. You’ve convinced me.
So what benefit doe that flower give to society? Zero. Mine, baby, mine.
Lithium mining kills the miners
Check the same mining in Africa shi is deceiving you guys
Hymc
Mother Nature creating lithium dumps? That’s logical
Can you snort lithium
Is there a town or any amenities in Silver peak.
Right they are in a Toxic Lithium Pit but they will just imagine they are in the Caribbean. Humans are Doomed.
They have to raise the price of fossil fuels in order to make mining for lithium profitable.
how is that people have no common sense as to how harmful li-ion is to the environment :/
how much child labor will I need for the most amount of profit?
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?
OMG just for those plants the lithium business will be held. I understands the beauty it can give but we are talking here the future Technology
this won’t age well
So let destroy the water and will it full of horrible chemical waste for these EVs.
Draining aquifers? That’s super…
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.