California’s Lithium Valley could power electric vehicle industry | 60 Minutes
California’s Lithium Valley could power electric vehicle industry | 60 Minutes
As the U.S. auto industry goes green, companies are developing lithium extraction for batteries in California’s Imperial Valley. Bill Whitaker reports.
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Good luck building anything in California. By the time you get all the permits and navigate through all the regulations, raccoons have taken over humanity and studying our history.
What a way to corner the market. The cleanest energy is free energy.
They better build the compound earthquake proof since sultan sea is active in earthquakes
Wow… You were told the Lithium Valley area could produce half the lithium for all cars in the US and then you turned around and said that it could produce all the lithium needed for cars in the US. I just don’t understand. ?
LITHIUM BATTERIES ARE VERY VERY DANGEROUS
LITHIUM BATTERY CARS ARE LIKE BOMBS AND THE PARKING GARAGES ARE NOT ENGINEERED TO SAFELY SUPPORT THE WEIGHT OF PARKED ELECTRIC VEHICLES
These people are capitalist swine!
What about all the science saying that the imperial valley will be uninhabitable by 2050 because of all of the toxic dust. It already has the highest rate of youth asthma in the country…..
Where does the lithium come from????? slaves process and mine it.
Lets see how’s profitable it can be..by time the liberals get a hold of it, be lucky to break even
Lithium alternatives have been under way. Better cash in on the lithium craze before it’s too late.
In Seattle I saw sooo many tesla over the weekend. I didn’t know why
It’s simply comical how you EV apologists stick your head in the sand with the coming environmental disaster caused by EV’s. Simply comical.
He said transition. 🛑
Americans are so inventive and create such wonders.
5566 t⁴55⁵I I am
THEM BATTERIES LAST A LONG TIME…..WHY NOT MORE ATTENTION, GUESS THE CONTROLLING HAND, NOT LETTING OTHER RESOURCES COMPETE
➡️A typical EV battery weighs one thousand pounds, about the size of a travel trunk. It contains twenty-five pounds of lithium, sixty pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic. Inside are over 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells.
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It should alarm you that all those toxic components come from mining. For instance, to manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just one battery.
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KIDS DIE TO MAKE YOUR BATTERIES.
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Sixty-eight percent of the world’s cobalt, a significant part of a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no pollution controls, and they employ children who die from handling this toxic material. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part of the cost of driving an electric car?"
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LAC’s Thacker Pass in Nevada will be up and running years before the dream that is production from the Salton Sea. If you’re looking to put your money into lithium, LAC is it.
Stop deflecting the truth about nickel and cobalt!!!!!!!!!
IT IS CURRENTLY NOT POSSIBLE TO RECYCLE LYTHIUM BATTERIES….
SO MORE TOXIC DISTRUCTION…..IN CALIFORNIA…. RIGHT ON TOP OF THE SAN **** ANDREAS *** FAULT…. ***
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GREAT IDEA …
WORLD CLASS VENTURE ….
SUCH
MORONS….
Geezzzz
Wonder if Elon has invested in any of the Lithium companies? Would say a lot if he has.
@2:44 he looks like a casino shark
We could have a fully functional society. We don’t. But we could 🍾🥂
It was reported in the mainstream news that – Elon Musk is now buying and using cost effective BYD batteries in his EV cars production since March 2023
Elon Musk has to eat his uncomplimentary words that talked down on BYD! 😂
IT IS CURRENTLY NOT POSSIBLE TO RECYCLE LYTHIUM BATTERIES….
SO MORE TOXIC DISTRUCTION…..IN CALIFORNIA…. RIGHT ON TOP OF THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT….
GREAT IDEA …
WORLD CLASS VENTURE …
With every passing month theres less and less need for highly toxic lithium mining as sodium batteries are the next generation with better design and no fire hazard as associated with lithium batteries in crashes .
Pipefitters are going to be busy!
I guarantee you all… The minute these gets bad is when There is a huge accident and the environment is very nadly effected… Keep watching…
I wish people could get the lithium picture. It is very complicated, and the new sodium batteries are proving better and safer, and sodium is as easy to get hold of as lithium is difficult. Lithium seems to me a most unsafe investment.
Where are you a ger the water from😅😅
LITHIUM IS ON IT’S WAY OUT – There is already new battery materials companies are starting to switch over too.
As long greedy individuals dont ruin the business aspect, and its a win win for everyone
Lithium is about as unfriendly to the environment as Chernobyl. Giant bio hazard in the making
Looking forward to the environmental catastrophe when these pools are open to the air and a earthquake, fire or the pool fails. Causing all that waste to destroy thousands of acres for decades to come
Could lithium be combined with titanium and Nickel.
Maybe TiN coat the battery everywhere you can
Mexico 🇲🇽 will nationalize it and other countries like the US will cry about it 😂
This segment is extremely favorable towards business interests and does not fully explain the dire status of the Salton Sea. While Lithium extraction has big benefits, 60 Minutes totally failed to highlight how bad the toxic dust and environmental impacts of mining will have on the surrounding area.
The Pacific Institute’s 2014 report states, "Even at the low estimate, the long–term social and economic costs of a deteriorating Salton Sea could approach $29 billion."
Failing to include the economic consequences of the Salton Sea’s demise does not provide the viewer with a full picture as to the stakes of lithium extraction.
Green electricity..yet where do all these bad chemicals in these massive battery packs end up? Land fill? partially re-used. Doesn’t anyone see this massive problem that will present itself in about 5 years? when the 1st generation EVs start depositing their batteries in landfills?
Don’t believe the Hype
Digging in California perpetually for resources is a bad idea. You already have earthquakes and the San Andreas fault. And the green electricity grid cant sustain all needs for energy.
Hey, gang, you left out one key question: Where does the electricity come from to charge all those batteries? Wind energy is turning turtle. Solar panels are largely another import. and can’t possibly pay for themselves. Nuclear is still political unthinkable. And most other sources of generation have the greenies lined up to stop R&D, let alone implementation. And, too, as tax rates rise, as they are sure to do, the voters’ willingness to subsidize lithium extraction and electric vehicles is somewhat likely to wane,
There Will be a huge disaster simply because it is not natural – none of this is… Never has been, Never will… Taking from the Earth – in whatever form, Never ends well…. Never… It all creates an imbalance, always does……..
God help us all…
We will see if they are willing to keep the cost down… But I dought it… I seriously dought it… Japan – sure they are doing it best, but here in greedy America… I dont see it ending well at all…
LITHIUM POLLUTION
NOT A SOLUTION
STOP ALL LITHIUM MINING NOW!!!
But you have to charge them…
Two things here. The "environmental" guy said nothing about the environment. You’re high AF if you think domestic lithium is going to make EV’s cheaper.
Recycling the batteries is also in need. Hopefully the government will take it into consideration
Maybe you should figure out how to keep your exiting grid operable before you start tap dancing
Now we just need gooberment to force people into EV’s because that’s the only way they buy this junk.
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