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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Lies
This is a nice little advertisement for the lithium industry
You people are a bunch of liars. Most of the lithium that we use comes from the Congo. Only a small percentage comes from first world countries. It’s too expensive to mine for cobalt in a first world country because of workers unions, insurance, and the cost of clean up. Those mines are highly toxic, and bad for the environment. I’m not surprised that the media is trying to shine a positive light on these mines seeing as the C.E.O’s that own these media corporations have a huge investment into these mining companies and Politicians that support those investments.
Just remember. That huge battery that’s in your Tesla, or Chevy Volt, was brought to by a group of Africans risking their lives with no safety gear for only three dollars a day. I bet most of you liberals won’t look up lithium mines in Africa. This whole green energy via environmentally friendly electric cars is a political, and corporate sham.
I do worry that people that criticize fossil fuel only do so because they’re invested in something else that could have potentially worse consequences if expanded. Too often we rely on studies conducted by industries themselves for information on the environmental effects of said industries. Just google search EV cars, wind power, solar, ect. Most of the results that pop up are ads from those industries that drown out any studies conducted from independent sources. No study into any subject can be trusted if it is funded by the industries it is researching. That’s like having a murderer investigate his/her own crime, but too often this is the only source of data.
What’s the name of the reporter?
Everytime I hear the fossil medias speak, I realise that a guy who doesn’t even have a high school diploma like me is smarter than them
Wonder when the black gold rush will be coming
Gold $1,850 per ounce, lithium $26.50 per ounce.
Host is annoying
Wow looks so green! All those huge diesel engines mining rock out of the earth destroying animal and plant habitats
biden make my stomach hurt
Wait for méxico.
WTF? Absolute B.S. open your eyes.
Her voice is kind of MEG from family guy
Why can’t the miner raise a few thousand Tiehm’s buckwheat plants in a nursery? This seems like a poor balance of costs and benefits.
So let me get this right -we are holding up a process that could help revolutionize our economy and provide a whole new "green" industry within our country so that we can protect a bunch of glorified weeds that sit in a desert where no one lives.. This is why people vote for politicians like Trump.
Wow! Biden didn’t fall asleep. Or was that edited out?
I know whats more environmental. OIL AND GAS. And plants breath carbon.
Kurt Cobain loved this documentary. RIP
Evaporation , ? food batteries ? hum? wake up
Im just glad they had their masks on!
Where in the F*KK are they gonna get the boocoo water they need 4 this SH*T ??
Nurses are better
"To save the planet" this is a lie. They don t care. Is another story in the back for sure.
Salton sea has lithium but California will screw that up with protests .There will be all types of new advanced technology that the government will kill to control lithium.The rich 🤑
Control it .
All over one plant that noone will see or noonw will ever wanna see
Cars ev= covid
Ev🤮🤮🤮💩💩💩💩
Not using “water” that can be used for agriculture…… this country has gone bat shut crazy
I thought there was a drought out in Nevada. Looks like there’s plenty of water.
All that bullshit over a fuckin weed
So this video turned out to be about a flower? You liberals amaze me. As long as children in China are producing your products, you don’t care. As soon as you realize that there a consequences to every action, opps, there is an issue. All I have to say is that America is screwed now because of your way of thinking. We can do things safely for the environment and move forward. Instead, they will spend 20 years trying to get that mine open and millions of dollars. By the time it opens, lithium will no longer be needed. The entire world is passing us up and you are worried about a flower. God save us all!
A few weeds holding up a lithium mine? Only in this liberal ass country
biggest load of bollocks since they said smoking was safe. lithium is a small part of a massive environmental catastrophe making these batteries. cobalt is far worse, toxic and biggest deposits in the most unstable countries in the world.
kids digging the stuff up!
can’t remember seeing children on oil rigs?
can’t replace oil with something just as bad or worse
Holy Spirit GOD Watsonville , California . The Sincerely prophecy and Prophesy and Prophet ISRAEL Michael Ramos ORAMOS PRINCE.
Buy LTUM Stock
Better and cleaner than coal. Not to mention lithium is 92% recyclable. Yet another weak argument by right being decimated by reality.
Can’t we just relocate the flower somewhere else with all the money that a lithium mine would generate
#Patent Rights are Racism
By 2030? His ass ( Biden) gone in 2023! Out of here! Then WE GET TRUMP BACK…THEN CRUIZ…DEMS ARE FINISHED. TRAITORS AND SELL OUTS…COMMUNISTS AND IDIOTS..STUTTERING MUTTERING MUMBLING FOOLS. TRUMP NEEDS TO CHARGE & JAIL THEM ALL! IF FOUND GUTY OF TREASON? PUNISHABLE BY DEATH BY FIRING SQUAD
SAVE THE WILDFLOWER…….as this chode goes to Burger King and eats beef that leveled a rain forest………FKN moron.
You are outside doing an interview….take the mask off
When high school cross country runners go to meets at Lithia Park, funny adults tell them there’s lithium in the water and it feels good to drink water there
C.SPMT
Quite good narrator , i like her style of talking
"We can regulate that"…. the government isnt a pressure valve. it is a series of beauracracies. Usually "Regulate", from a government standpoint, just means, "how much can we charge these businesses for an ‘Exception”?". the best regulation is competition between businesses as consumers purchase from the business who does their job in a more clean fashion.
Funny how ABC music editors don’t know the difference between Kentucky bluegrass music (intro) and what was really played out west. hint: They didn’t play slide blues or banjos out there. Jeez.
I thought white gold was coke😂
So is this where my anti psychotic comes from
FF replacement Wall Street investment substance… Coal strip mine style Gargantua operations… fossil fuelster "jump shipper" opportunists.. Why, it just so happens, they purport hydrogen fuel cells can never work, Metal hydride battery inovation will just lie there stalled, induction road charging inovation will just lie there stalled. All for fossil fuel style technology inovation derailment 2.0… LITHIUM. And YOU the people have to sit around WAITING like fools for your LITHIUM battery EVs to charge… It just so happens.
The human race, or the buckwheat? Hard decision