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 is lithium recycled? Are we going to poison our water system and soil?
California and Nevada could really use that water
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.
Dig up the wildflower and put it in a botanical garden 😂. There are so few of them
Hello friends, does your company provide lithium ore and copper ore supply? I come from China.
Truth.anout your electric crap
https://youtu.be/CIWvk3gJ_7E
The most corrupt people, hold the most power.
India has found world’s third largest reserve of lithium 5.9 million tons
Liberals against oil fracking but ok with strip mining lithium 😅
Draining aquifers? That’s super…
So we why do we care about that one flower species? Like is it really that important?
let’s go brandon
What is 500 football fields long 🤣
And the environment never recovers.
Right they are in a Toxic Lithium Pit but they will just imagine they are in the Caribbean. Humans are Doomed.
Can you snort lithium
Climate change
🤡 😂
So creating an ecological disaster is good for the environment now, how does that work exactly?
this is not the answer to our problems
They are lying ,they do not care about the environment All they care about is making money.
I like the coverage of domestic mining in a positive light.
Forget that flower!! You care so much about it you would relocate and reformulated a way for it to grow else where!!
Climate change lololol
how much child labor will I need for the most amount of profit?
one little flower ? really… leaching will affect all your ground water over millions of acres, poisoning everything, not just 1 plant and the called professional expert perfect means of treatment ? right…. where have you heard that before… they lie so they can profit, they will kill to profit like they already do!
Lithium mining kills the miners
We don’t need EVs and there is no need for lithium.
They have to raise the price of fossil fuels in order to make mining for lithium profitable.
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.
BIDEN IS WOTHLESS AF
It’s not the source of the power, just a store.
Liberals orgasmic about electric vehicles. Hugging trees but ignore strip mining damage and disposal. They hate coal but act like electricity is magic.
Your supposed electric vehicle, runs on electrity generated mostly by COAL and NATURAL GAS.
Is there a town or any amenities in Silver peak.
So let destroy the water and will it full of horrible chemical waste for these EVs.
Literally thousands of plants animals and insects go extinct every day
Lithium mining is worse for the environment than fossil fuels
how is that people have no common sense as to how harmful li-ion is to the environment :/
Lithium Ion is not the only chemical for lithium batteries, *cobalt* is needed also. Read how it is mined! "They use pickaxes, shovels, stretches of rebar to hack and scrounge at the earth in trenches and pits and tunnels to gather cobalt and feed it up the formal supply chain." NPR February 1, 2023
*white gold* my donkey!
"How ‘modern-day slavery’ in the Congo powers the *rechargeable battery economy*" WTAF! is the *green new deal* trading one catastrophe for another? The 21st centuries waste, pollutants, environmental destroyers, replacing fossil waste with green waste! How in the hell is this better? 🤔
OMG just for those plants the lithium business will be held. I understands the beauty it can give but we are talking here the future Technology
But that plant suppose to be in lithium rich soil. What is population growth?
By taking all the minerals from the earth worldwide how is that helping the environment the planet
How much diesel fuel will be used for mining?
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…
Check the same mining in Africa shi is deceiving you guys
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
So what benefit doe that flower give to society? Zero. Mine, baby, mine.
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?
It was great viideo
Thank you so much
Lies and more propaganda