r/technology • u/ourlifeintoronto • Sep 10 '23

Transportation Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/lithium-discovery-in-us-volcano-could-be-biggest-deposit-ever-found/4018032.article
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u/texachusetts Sep 11 '23

The lithium shortage fear industry will keep going just fine. Anyway they already have their bases covered with the lithium battery fire fear market. Gasoline clearly the safest transportation energy solution available. /s

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u/lurkinglurkerwholurk Sep 11 '23

And if that fear runs out, remember; there’s always the lithium environmental disaster fear.

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u/gayety Sep 11 '23

And if those fears end we can circle right back to the fear of your transportation kicking the absolute shit out of you because you walked behind it too closely

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u/crosstherubicon Sep 11 '23

You forgot nuclear when considering safest. /s

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u/Slick424 Sep 11 '23

Behold!

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u/crosstherubicon Sep 11 '23

Brilliant.. I had the hot wheels car! Probably the closest a nuclear powered car will ever come to reality.

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u/PM_ME_UR_PET_POTATO Sep 11 '23

I really dislike this sort of narrative, it just removes any sense of nuance and automatically assumes any criticism towards battery usage is anti-environmentalist.

Batteries are not the be all and end all of infrastructure. You do not just make things eco friendly when you suddenly remove whatever was there before and add batteries. That's honestly the worst form of greenwashing.