Interesting Articles of the Week
Does the world have enough lithium to allow us all to drive electric cars?
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2 comments:
Thanks for the lithium article. I was unaware of its relative scarcity and geographic epicenter.
I wonder how the disposable use of lithium accentuates the problem (Energizer's AA lithium batteries, for example).
crush,
Glad you liked it. I aim to please. :)
I have no idea how much disposable use of lithium adds to the problem. The article says 70,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate are mined a year, so that would be a lot of AA batteries. I think you are supposed to recycle all the lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, so hopefully most of them don't get thrown away. But I have no clue how many tons of lithium end up in the landfills each year.
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