USA:
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.
Incoming reclassification of maple syrup as a WMD.
“This ‘syrup’ comprises a clear and present danger to the United States of America. Operation ‘Freedom Fries’ has been authorised!”
“Almost inexhaustible”
Humanity: Hold my beer.
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.
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.
I suppose it’s a bit like diamonds, which are actually really abundant, just not always very accessible.
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
And we’ll just keep shipping it out of the country for pennies for other countries to make value added products.
You want some of the impacts of making those value added products in your back yard?
A key reason why Canada ships its oil, lumber, and minerals elsewhere for processing is because there is a human cost to processing these things that moat people don’t want to pay.
Also, where clean processing is possible it makes processed materials cost-prohibitive when you can just buy the stuff from jurisdictions where health and environmental laws are lax or non-existent and you can process however you like.
Well, tax the dirty processors and eliminate them from the supply chain, you might suggest! That’s not easier either, see eliminating forced labour from the supply chain as an example.
I’m not saying nothing should or could be done about Canada’s extraction-only economy, just that it isn’t as easy it may appear at first glance.
Well, we’ve figured it on things like canola (crush for oil), peas (fractionation plants), lumber (sawmills) and cattle (packing plants). Those have pretty much been in spite of ourselves, not because, as they’ve flourished when we’ve had trade wars with the US/China (or BSE as the case may be).
We just need a nice crippling tariff on raw lithium and we’ll invest in making batteries. Maybe an export tariff for anything that heads to the US, and funnel that to startup some competition to CATL. The amount of human labor a LFP plant uses is pretty minimal. It would give us all those high-tech retraining positions I keep hearing about we’re going to get any day now.
The problem is greed, ad infinitum.
inb4 US bombs Canada for some lame excuse of a reason
Don’t tell trump
He’s already sniffin’. He can smell it with his greed.
what a godawful website
thanks for the blocklist addition
Why not just do uBlock instead of individual blocklists?
I also don’t want to even go to sites that disrespect their users like this
I don’t want to give them any traffic at all
Not backing up the site, but are you running an Adblock? I had no ads when I opened it.
I still had ad block off when I opened it initially
Weird. I have uBlock and it was fine.
Finally, good news for people with bipolar!
Maybe Alzheimer’s as well. There is new research on lithium that shows promise for that.
Hooray!.. Fuck!
People of canada should get dividents from profit
Sounds like a dictatorship that needs McLiberated™
Time to invade. After all what yours is ours. I wish I was joking.
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.
And throw
teacoffee barrels into the sea. That’ll show them!
Now do silver
I wonder if Elon will call for couping Canada to gain access to it.
Tragically, he is a citizen. He can just walk in and do whatever the hell he wants.
Tosh will be happy
