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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Oh and china dose next to nothing but emit massive amounts of gases and toxic waist all over the land . Yet no one say Jack abought there green house effect
Lithium mining is becoming a big issue in Europe now and not everyone is happy about that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBwMEQGNiw&t=31s
Why isn’t anyone mentioning the largest known reserve of lithium in the world is in Afghanistan?
I gotta admit those giant lithium pools look absolutely beautiful.
FJB!
"Farming Lithium" HILARIOUS.
Biden: Jobs… Hahahaaaaa, how’s that working out for ya?
By dissolving fossil fuels, you’re losing so many jobs…. He kinda made that evident early on.
What a moron
global warming funny? Go back to the horse and buggy days. Learn to live off the land. All that blue water is toxic.
Bye bye Buckwheat!
All it takes is 1 emp and all of usa is back to stone age lol
Why not actually show a lithium mine instead of these stock photos
What a joke!!! "The Caribbean" more like Gary Indiana… or superfund site
Wonder why you get sick holes
Dude hung up on a stupid little flower? Really? Message to that idiot is “you are the problem”. We need less of his kind
got ya George !
The convention on Biological Diversity concluded that: “Every day, up to 150 species are lost.” That could be as much as 10 percent a decade, do you think miners care about that wild flower?
The way she walks on that dirt road, OMG, she is so sexy, like a fashion model. BANGING !Î!!
It is not “recyclable energy.” It is a mineral. And what it will do is not the path to salvation that its proponents tout.
You can’t produce it enough without an intermediate step like natural gas.
Sorry dreams it ain’t happening
Let’s take all earths lithium and make car batteries. Best idea ever !
cause all this problems to reduce a fraction of the fraction of Greenhouse emission. Does not seem worth it
For 25 years US sat on the lithium storage in Afghanistan, without harvesting it. Now it gave up to China. Fool
Big rush to flourecent lightning ,gov mandate. LED was already on the Grid. Lithium now, what is next WOW
Go nuclear. Give the nuclear waste to one of the commercial space companies and lob it into space.
Why should our inefficiencies destroy us? What kind of business models are we doing? Reduce, Reuse, Rethink, Restore.
pumping out water from an earthquake prone region doesn’t seem like a very good idea to me..
Does this pollute the ground water reserves?
Ohh please, please protect that wildflower. 🙄
Direct Lithium Extraction $SLI $LLKKF $eemmf is better for environment only takes 3 to 8 hours
is it a good idea to lithium farm the entire west coast
6:25 This man wants to stop the electric transition which will save thousands of species to save a flower, what a legend.
Tell you what. you can have the weeds in my yard for your buckwheat. Trade?
You need Cobalt and Nickel also to make a Lithium battery 😀 Poison worst than Oil 😀
What nobody’s talking about or mentioning Is after all these cars are made by the lithium batteries at some point the batteries are no longer good, Where do the batteries go when they are no longer good ?How do we dispose of them Is there going to be stock piles In the desert with billions of batteries wasting away?
Lets Go Brandon.
The irony is disgusting when you consider how many people think they are being green, while supporting mining and destroying the environment with enormous lithium plants, slaves in the Congo digging their cobalt dead battery chemical leeching, etc.
It’s not green, it’s evil.
Your huge batteries are horrible. They go bad after a decade, and then have to undergo an insane amount of effort to recycle, and then what?
Nothing is free, batteries have a huge cost.
If you have to mine it, it’s not renewable.
California drought???? They stole the water 💦
Strip mining that’s your fix for climate change. 🤣🤣🤣.
lithium batteries are a nightmare to dispose of I feel like we should wipe out 3/4 of the population of humans and and that will solve all the problems. I’m just saying 😉🤷♀️
Serbia lithium rich
China is producing lithium at a great pace. If we don’t have the ability to produce our own it will be another control mechanism so we need to expand lithium mining here in the US and throughout the Americas.
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
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.
No all your viewers are from USA
Exploits the reserves in other countries first like oil and then when they ran out you know the rest.
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
Stop voting for demokrats they distroing our country
We only have one mine because it is some toxic garbage to mine. Let’s go Brandon!