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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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
Go nuclear. Give the nuclear waste to one of the commercial space companies and lob it into space.
I say F that flower, and open the option for thousands of jobs in THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE anyway. Perfect place to dig!!!
ABC LIES 100% HORRIABLE, WORST THAN OIL DRILLING
This is way they don’t want cobalt !!!
Wonder if one could use those flowers as low cost lithium detectors? (Plant, watch survive and offspring.)
How is this different from Fracking ?
Yeah and all your drinking water gets contaminated
All it takes is 1 emp and all of usa is back to stone age lol
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
If you have to mine it, it’s not renewable.
Does this pollute the ground water reserves?
Lets Go Brandon.
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.
pumping out water from an earthquake prone region doesn’t seem like a very good idea to me..
Releasing toxic water is eco friendly sure
Ohh please, please protect that wildflower. 🙄
global warming funny? Go back to the horse and buggy days. Learn to live off the land. All that blue water is toxic.
Why do we care about a desert flower?
I gotta admit those giant lithium pools look absolutely beautiful.
BraddaLithium
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.
Hahahaahjaj move the plant . 300 homes in Brevard country have destroyed the indigenous saw grass palmetto in just one month
"Farming Lithium" HILARIOUS.
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.
Of course usa owns Chile’s lithium
If I could I would. But I won’t
You need Cobalt and Nickel also to make a Lithium battery 😀 Poison worst than Oil 😀
Let’s take all earths lithium and make car batteries. Best idea ever !
This is this biggest lie I’ve ever seen. 🤣
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?
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.
6:25 This man wants to stop the electric transition which will save thousands of species to save a flower, what a legend.
For 25 years US sat on the lithium storage in Afghanistan, without harvesting it. Now it gave up to China. Fool
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
You can’t produce it enough without an intermediate step like natural gas.
Sorry dreams it ain’t happening
No all your viewers are from USA
California drought???? They stole the water 💦
The way she walks on that dirt road, OMG, she is so sexy, like a fashion model. BANGING !Î!!
cause all this problems to reduce a fraction of the fraction of Greenhouse emission. Does not seem worth it
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
Stop voting for demokrats they distroing our country
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.
It is not “recyclable energy.” It is a mineral. And what it will do is not the path to salvation that its proponents tout.
I suppose nobody really think public transportation / trains would take off as main mode of transportation in the US. The logic is that we will continue to drive everywhere except now in electric cars. Therefore, we "must" mine the lithium and the local environment be damned, as a tradeoff to "meet climate goals" and "save the greater environment".
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 got to the part where Biden started talking. Then I fell asleep.
Why are these people wearing masks outside?
Move the plant
Big rush to flourecent lightning ,gov mandate. LED was already on the Grid. Lithium now, what is next WOW