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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"green energy" that requires 500,000 gallons of water to produce 1 ton of product.
Anybody ever tried to extinguish a lithium ion battery fire?? Let me know how it goes
Any video quoting Biden is garbage đź—‘
I love how environmentalist are just as butt headed as trump supporters to get climate change under control.
Mother Nature creating lithium dumps? That’s logical
this won’t age well
So is the company going to clean all that up once they leave?
I find this tradeoff to be a very easy decision to make. How does 50,000 electric cars/year sound? Apparently horribly destructive because this one barely living flower has a slight chance of going extinct in a mile radius.
Do a story on Graphene Manufacturing Group. New Graphene Ion Battery does not need Lithium.
This video was going well until Biden entered the picture.
Do it in America, or else the price will rise like anything else.
So much worse than fracking , oil , and CO 2 combined.
So just HOW is Biden going to cut our greenhouse gas emissions by 50% in just eight years???? Crash the economy of course. Close up shop.
"We just have to get the technology" says an American. How did we get to this point?
America Lithium also is starting a mine in Peru where there are very few environmental protections. They are a publicly traded company too on the NYSE, with investors, relying on this mine to meet their bottom line.
Still, with no appropriate environmental protections, 100 wells plus more are confirmed to have already been completed according to the company’s July, 2022 shareholder meeting, on a video posted on you tube – check out around minute 33:33 and see what the CEO says, pretty much, that we could be using Sodium Ion batteries instead of Lithium. Sodium Ion batteries use salt and graphite, not Lithium, I’m pretty sure no Cobalt, either. SO, why is this Lithium being pushed on everyone, just like in the past with other industries…
What green plan??? This is not green!!!
They use unlimited amounts of water to mine lithium, we won’t have much water by 2050 do to people storing it all to many people wasting to much and now mining lithium with it
Lets destroy the environment….to save the environment đź«
Need to see a comparison of fracking for oil and this brine water lithium. Wonder what happens to insects and animals that have contact with these large bodies of toxic water.
Big error in this report.
Lithium batteries does not produce power to charge our phones. What it does do is store electricity produced elsewhere via coal, gas, hydro, nuclear, solar, wind, etc.
does the southwest need 4.6 million gallons of fresh clean water every day or a tesla they cannot afford? Thacker Pass has been thrown open to digging a deep pit mixing our water with acid so the rich can drive a fancy car. When the Quinn River gives out they will keep drawing from the aquifer.
Oh no. The single species of flower. Aquifers do replenish eventually. I.e, water seeps back in.
Lithium batteries are VERY EASILY recyclable. People always forget that. We dont have the capacity yet but its a very easy process that recovers 99% of lithium.
@5:35 she asks how long do they have ? He replies they have estimated 10 years to strip mine the area and were left with a giant hole in the ground with a pit of toxic lake water…. That seems to be good for the environment 👍🏼
O NO A FLOWER WHO CARES. WE CAN’T HAVE PLANTS IF THE ATMOSPHERE IS ALL CO2!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
We need to destroy the earth’s crust to save the environment
I only concentrated on the puppy
With water being such a precious commodity, Why do we just waste it?
Man made climate change is a farce, Nevada used to be 1/3 giant lake did man made climate change cause the lake to go away? Death Valley used to be a giant lake did man made climate change cause it to go away?
I’ve learned of way too many white materials/etc. now and now I’m afraid I need to learn how to test something white to see what kind of substance it is. There are drugs that are white. Salt. Baking Powders. Now this Lithium. There are probably even more white grainy and powdery substances too and that is going to become way too confusing to discern easily with just looking at them all. I’m also concerned about this area and what it looks like, how desolate it is there. No structures built to provide shade. How do the workers survive in that no man’s land? I wouldn’t put up with that crap and I’d make sure they construct some survival structures around there before starting a work life in that area.
This wont end well for us
Total disinformation.
It’s a good thing the American government is involved, that we we know everything we are told is true and good for us. when I hear democrats say something I immediately start looking the opposite direction for truth.. this will end up like the oil wars we have invited ourselves into in the name of “help” for other countries. Oh, and thanks for wearing your masks alone in the desert idiots. Your saving the world !!!
This is exactly the mentality that has allowed China to monopilise all the critical minerals needed for our energy and national defense needs. We have people more concerned with a little plant than all the damage that fossil fuels are doing to the rest of the world.
Nor is the method of extracting the lithium from the ponds very effective or efficient. It need to be dumped into much smaller pools where the water can be heated with solar concentrating mirrors with glass domed roofs on top of the pools collecting all the desalinated steam/condensation and using what was useless salt water deep in the ground into now clean/desalinated water for other purposes. That would speed up the rocess a thousand fold and is a win-win for all.
You talk like lithium isnt toxic. Go ahead and use it for your facial than.
Come on keep flower and don’t use lithium that would otherwise promote gasoline fueled cars putting the earth more at risk. Bigger picture is to dig out lithium to save the world in a speedy way n replace combustion engine
Joe Biden literally cannot string a sentence together.
Wouldn’t the cleanest way to output less carbon be to have less humans on the planet? If everyone is so hell bent on climate change and carbon emissions, have less of what’s the root cause of the carbon emissions in the first place.
Yeah go kill flowers in china instead
Beat them kids for being too noisy with those toys cause I’m ever so fatigued
Oh and u should also go and c where u get that charge that powers the lithium. Probably 90% coal
After i seen biden talking i just clicked off of the video
Really? Who gives a crap about some weed looking plant.🙄
These clowns walking around outside in face diapers….man wtf
Hey greentards, learn introductory physics before trying to talk about "climate change" and the "need for electric vehicles."
They’re not “farming” lithium, they’re extracting it. It’s a filthy, polluting business, ecologically-speaking
Who cares about a damn flower🤦
This is propaganda … wake up folks you’re being conditioned to accept a different kind of planet destruction.
Bunch of BS over 85% of the lithium and cobalt comes from mining operations in Third World countries where they use child slaves in the mine chefs. I guess if that’s the kind of trade-off you’re looking for you can sell your soul for a walk conscience.
Climate change is a scam
They are so smart they wear a face mask outside all by themselves.
Had to laugh when reporter said should we do it properly here in US rather than getting it from Australia.
If she bothered to do her research properly she would have known that Ioneer is an Australian company.