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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how much child labor will I need for the most amount of profit?
Yeah go kill flowers in china instead
Hey greentards, learn introductory physics before trying to talk about "climate change" and the "need for electric vehicles."
Right they are in a Toxic Lithium Pit but they will just imagine they are in the Caribbean. Humans are Doomed.
California and Nevada could really use that water
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?
Oh no. The single species of flower. Aquifers do replenish eventually. I.e, water seeps back in.
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.
Any mining has a catastrophic effect on the planet for multiple decades anywhere so none of it is good. Huna.s are the most destructive wasteful species on this planet
These documentaries about Lithium mining/ production always seem to leave out the medical (psychiatric) applications of this amazing element. What about the millions of people who depend on a daily supply of Lithium carbonate to stabilize their moods? I’m one of those people. I have bipolar disorder. Lithium helps keep my head on straight. So… what happens to us mood disordered souls when the Lithium supply runs out? It’s not like I can run out and eat my neighbor’s electric car battery and be on my merry way…
This video was going well until Biden entered the picture.
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.
Check the same mining in Africa shi is deceiving you guys
So we why do we care about that one flower species? Like is it really that important?
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.
These clowns walking around outside in face diapers….man wtf
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.
Mother Nature creating lithium dumps? That’s logical
So much worse than fracking , oil , and CO 2 combined.
Hymc
imagine wearing a mask in the middle of a dessert .-.–.-.-
Climate change is a scam
Any video quoting Biden is garbage 🗑
Anybody ever tried to extinguish a lithium ion battery fire?? Let me know how it goes
this won’t age well
And the environment never recovers.
Lies and more propaganda
So is the company going to clean all that up once they leave?
Just go ahead and destroy biodiversity for the preservation of homosapiens. That’s what is going to happen. Stop talking about it, pretending that any item in nature won’t be sacrificed for the dominant species. Just break out the hula-hoe and extinct this species of flower in the Nevada desert.
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.
Can you snort lithium
But that plant suppose to be in lithium rich soil. What is population growth?
Man the 80’s kinda had the first white gold
Lithium mining is worse for the environment than fossil fuels
I only concentrated on the puppy
I love how environmentalist are just as butt headed as trump supporters to get climate change under control.
They have to raise the price of fossil fuels in order to make mining for lithium profitable.
Really? Who gives a crap about some weed looking plant.🙄
So let destroy the water and will it full of horrible chemical waste for these EVs.
Hello friends, does your company provide lithium ore and copper ore supply? I come from China.
By taking all the minerals from the earth worldwide how is that helping the environment the planet
Total disinformation.
Is there a town or any amenities in Silver peak.
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.
They’re not “farming” lithium, they’re extracting it. It’s a filthy, polluting business, ecologically-speaking
Forget that flower!! You care so much about it you would relocate and reformulated a way for it to grow else where!!
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
They are so smart they wear a face mask outside all by themselves.
Here’s a challenge. Up production by 1000%. Then make a new video about how good it is for the climate. "We can regulate that" what u gone do? Meter lithium battery sales?
Wow, using Biden as a science expert has totally convinced me. So did wearing masks when you were alone in the nevada desert. Covid is just that dangerous, large empty deserts spread it horrendously. You’ve convinced me.