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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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.
this won’t age well
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.
Beat them kids for being too noisy with those toys cause I’m ever so fatigued
So is the company going to clean all that up once they leave?
Climate change is a scam
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
After i seen biden talking i just clicked off of the video
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.
We need to destroy the earth’s crust to save the environment
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.
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.
O NO A FLOWER WHO CARES. WE CAN’T HAVE PLANTS IF THE ATMOSPHERE IS ALL CO2!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
imagine wearing a mask in the middle of a dessert .-.–.-.-
I only concentrated on the puppy
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.
I love how environmentalist are just as butt headed as trump supporters to get climate change under control.
This is the answer? One of the criticisms of lithium-ion batteries has long been that they cannot be recycled, that each new battery therefore requires fossil-fuel-powered energy-intensive mining of metals such as lithium, nickel, manganese and cobalt.
Virtually everything has petroleum in it. We need many sources of everything for many things. There are too many people being born and most of them suffer, struggle because of the sexual urges of box sexes and social constructs. A social construct is a concept that exists not in objective reality, but as a result of human interaction. It exists because humans agree that it exists.
How about a social construct where most people agree that we need less house, less cars, trucks, less of all material things, less, less and more efficient of these lesser things?
Contraception and less humans will solve most problems within 50 years. How about getting the human population down at least 50% in 50 years by not having children or having fewer. Most people can think of other ways of making life less of a struggle. I certainly do not have all the answers.
Who cares about a damn flower🤦
You talk like lithium isnt toxic. Go ahead and use it for your facial than.
Really? Who gives a crap about some weed looking plant.🙄
Any video quoting Biden is garbage 🗑
Do it in America, or else the price will rise like anything else.
This video was going well until Biden entered the picture.
This is propaganda … wake up folks you’re being conditioned to accept a different kind of planet destruction.
Do a story on Graphene Manufacturing Group. New Graphene Ion Battery does not need Lithium.
They’re not “farming” lithium, they’re extracting it. It’s a filthy, polluting business, ecologically-speaking
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?
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!!!
FAR MORE CONTAMINATING THAN OIL. Lithium mines DESTROY THE WATER TABLES for 1000s of miles around it. LITHIUM IS THE BIGGEST SCAM OF THE 21st CENTURY
Joe Biden literally cannot string a sentence together.
So much worse than fracking , oil , and CO 2 combined.
Yeah go kill flowers in china instead
Oh no. The single species of flower. Aquifers do replenish eventually. I.e, water seeps back in.
Oh and u should also go and c where u get that charge that powers the lithium. Probably 90% coal
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.
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.
These clowns walking around outside in face diapers….man wtf
Mother Nature creating lithium dumps? That’s logical
Lets destroy the environment….to save the environment 🫠
"green energy" that requires 500,000 gallons of water to produce 1 ton of product.
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 !!!
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
@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 👍🏼
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.
Total disinformation.
Hey greentards, learn introductory physics before trying to talk about "climate change" and the "need for electric vehicles."
Anybody ever tried to extinguish a lithium ion battery fire?? Let me know how it goes
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.