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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So what benefit doe that flower give to society? Zero. Mine, baby, mine.
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Lithium farming 😀
They’re just trying to sell the slip young make big business Fusion there is no money infusion Fusion means cheaper energy there is no money infusion governments lie I really hope that Russia and the United States go to war and used nuclear power
Lithium mining kills the miners
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!
Destroys and poisons the land; the reporter " Oww looks pretty"
Your supposed electric vehicle, runs on electrity generated mostly by COAL and NATURAL GAS.
Lithium is not white gold but this Quantum mineral from future
Right they are in a Toxic Lithium Pit but they will just imagine they are in the Caribbean. Humans are Doomed.
It was great viideo
Thank you so much
this is not the answer to our problems
Literally thousands of plants animals and insects go extinct every day
Look at all that damage they’ve done. You should see the mines they mine from. Oil well goes 3 miles deep with a tube, while lithium mines are 4 miles wide and 4 miles deep. Glad self righteousness idiots think about themselves though.
Liberals against oil fracking but ok with strip mining lithium 😅
How is lithium recycled? Are we going to poison our water system and soil?
this is terribly produced… Nightline sucks without Ted Koppel. This is like a cheesy Discovery show from the early 2000’s. Lame. Everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves.
Climate change
🤡 😂
And as predicted 10 years ago by the end of 2013 we will have saline batteries in cars and lithium is out surely you knew this before making this BS
The most corrupt people, hold the most power.
India has found world’s third largest reserve of lithium 5.9 million tons
That is a big lie you big nose Devil in Disguise we have a country full of liars con artist Gyp
Dig up the wildflower and put it in a botanical garden 😂. There are so few of them
Draining aquifers? That’s super…
Maybe they shouldnt have nuked the atmosphere, maybe that has caused climate change
It’s not the source of the power, just a store.
Truth.anout your electric crap
https://youtu.be/CIWvk3gJ_7E
BIDEN IS WOTHLESS AF
I’m just hoping the rush for lithium will trigger an earthquake the San Andreas fault hopefully
Is the lithium mine smelly? They are covering thier noses with fabric.
let’s go brandon
By taking all the minerals from the earth worldwide how is that helping the environment the planet
You lost me when you said over tens of thousands of years for nature to collected all the lithium in that valley. Wrong
So creating an ecological disaster is good for the environment now, how does that work exactly?
Idiots
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
Lithium Ion is not the only chemical for lithium batteries, *cobalt* is needed also. Read how it is mined! "They use pickaxes, shovels, stretches of rebar to hack and scrounge at the earth in trenches and pits and tunnels to gather cobalt and feed it up the formal supply chain." NPR February 1, 2023
*white gold* my donkey!
"How ‘modern-day slavery’ in the Congo powers the *rechargeable battery economy*" WTAF! is the *green new deal* trading one catastrophe for another? The 21st centuries waste, pollutants, environmental destroyers, replacing fossil waste with green waste! How in the hell is this better? 🤔
What is 500 football fields long 🤣
So let destroy the water and will it full of horrible chemical waste for these EVs.
Climate change lololol
How much diesel fuel will be used for mining?
They are lying ,they do not care about the environment All they care about is making money.
We don’t need EVs and there is no need for lithium.
Of course is going to contaminate everything in life has a catch they’re just billionaires want to get rich they’re just the Devil in Disguise the United States one of horse every country to use lithium or stop using carbon fuel it’s going to create Wars Human Nature
What this reporter is saying that he believes this big nose Gyp
how is that people have no common sense as to how harmful li-ion is to the environment :/
Liberals orgasmic about electric vehicles. Hugging trees but ignore strip mining damage and disposal. They hate coal but act like electricity is magic.
I like the coverage of domestic mining in a positive light.
Environmentalists that care about only flowers should be locked out of the future.
Wtf is 500 football fields can you actually speak in actual units to measure things lol