• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    And we’ll just keep shipping it out of the country for pennies for other countries to make value added products.

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      “This ‘syrup’ comprises a clear and present danger to the United States of America. Operation ‘Freedom Fries’ has been authorised!”

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    I know there’s been lots of headlines in the past like OMG there’s not enough lithium! It’s never been true.

    It’s one of the most abundant elements out there, it’s everywhere. It was always more about what reserves we knew about, but when what we knew about wasn’t going to be enough, people go looking, and it’s abundant.

    Also the more uses there are for it, the more profitable it is to extract from these methods and the better we get at it, the cheaper it is to extract, which further opens up even more options.

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      I suppose it’s a bit like diamonds, which are actually really abundant, just not always very accessible.

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      I don’t actually remember any articles that claimed there were lithium shortages in that there isn’t enough on the planet, but rather that China is the only country with a working supply chain.

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      Lithium is quite rare. Essentially all the lithium that exists was created at the big bang, and since then the total supply has been diminishing with each generation of stars - they fuse lithium into heavier elements.

      There’s less lithium all the time

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      15 hours ago

      It’s funny cause it’s true. Trump wants to invade Greenland and Canada; it’s not just because he’s a piece of shit dictator. He’s after resources for his cronies.

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      We know and that’s why we’re getting a citizen army of 300,000 and we’ll party like it’s 1812 part two electric boogaloo.