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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I say F that flower, and open the option for thousands of jobs in THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE anyway. Perfect place to dig!!!
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
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.
Nurses the plant and propagate as many as you while mining to have plant stock to replant as the mine is recovered back to a natural landscape.
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.
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.
This is this biggest lie I’ve ever seen. 🤣
And Noone talk about the Litium farming in Kongo where about 15000 children is working the mines….. the big companies chose to look the other way….
What happens when there isn’t enough water?
I’ll be packing my bags soon on my way to sunny Nevada.
So "technically", that water _could_ be used for agriculture instead, if for some reason food and water becomes more important than e-vehicles, or perhaps de-desertification, for the carbon capturing benefits of good old fashioned plant plants.
dont walk on the flower, just slowly drain its life out by lithium farming them LOL
If I could I would. But I won’t
This is way they don’t want cobalt !!!
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Why do we care about a desert flower?
Wassup with the catwalk? a model turned into reporter or a reporter turned into a model?
Of course usa owns Chile’s lithium
Yeah and all your drinking water gets contaminated
You are not welcomed in Thacker Pass Nevada
Wonder if one could use those flowers as low cost lithium detectors? (Plant, watch survive and offspring.)
The Boring Company has not Killed one endangered species and certainly not this precious plant @5:13
To all you "professional" mining executives… Time to man up and hire a ProofRock from Elon and get this done by building a tunnel highway in the layers so rich in Lithium.
Open pits and ponds are Old school and silly. They use, outdated machines and stick humans in them to drive in a slot car track.
C’mon it’s 2022, ProofRock is real. It exists TODAY. Get it done.
Guess who ain’t getting lithium for free??🤣
I gotta admit those giant lithium pools look absolutely beautiful.
Omg, americans are so decadent
Releasing toxic water is eco friendly sure
Why are these people wearing masks outside?
I got to the part where Biden started talking. Then I fell asleep.
Hahahaahjaj move the plant . 300 homes in Brevard country have destroyed the indigenous saw grass palmetto in just one month
"Critical to fight climate change"
What a retard
Lithium carbonate is now going for $65,000 per ton. Kinda want to drive up to those pools with a couple of 5 gallon buckets and walk away with a quick $3,000 dollars.
Does that weed have a human health benefit?
cause all this problems to reduce a fraction of the fraction of Greenhouse emission. Does not seem worth it
ABC LIES 100% HORRIABLE, WORST THAN OIL DRILLING
Does this pollute the ground water reserves?
No all your viewers are from USA
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 stoped watching once I saw they were wearing masks in the Nevada desert with just two people out there. Then the climate crisis lie started. Lame hippie propaganda. Thought it would be more educational.
Let’s take all earths lithium and make car batteries. Best idea ever !
BraddaLithium
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".
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
A buckwheat flower 😐😐😐
Move the plant
How is this different from Fracking ?
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.
its a goddamn flower…99% of every species that has existed on this planet has gone extinct and these people want to see the country fall behind economically to safe every damn plant, insect or whatever the hell their privileged life has led to believe is worth saving.
Soft men create hard times….
California drought???? They stole the water 💦
Hydrogen