Oh good, more earth to pillage.
Brighter note, to date is still the best way to make batteries, we need it to build storage capabilities for a grid based on renewable energy.
Unfortunately we’ll probably end up using it for disposable vapes instead
Sodium ion batteries would be better for grid storage. They’re cheaper, more durable, and work in a wider range of temperatures. Plus they’re going to market within the year
I find this perspective funny nowadays, and I want more people to question it, really question it. It’s valued at over $1.5 trillion? No, it’s worth nothing if it just sits there doing nothing. If you worded it as “Could be worth…” then I’d give it a pass. But don’t let yourself be fooled, that lithium has absolutely no real value if it’s not mined and put towards something that someone can use to improve their quality of life.
technically, it enhances the value of the land it’s under. as in if you own that land, and someone wants to buy it for mineral extraction, the value got whole lot higher knowing there is lithium there.
Really bizarre to write or post an article saying this deposit was ‘discovered’. This is decade old news. I saw the headline and thought ‘oh nice that’s like a whole other Thacker Pass’ but it literally is just Thacker Pass.
Somebody needs to figure out a way to prevent people from upvoting headlines of articles they haven’t read because as far as I can tell there is absolutely no reason to post or upvote this.
but it literally is just Thacker Pass.
This isn’t Thacker Pass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thacker_Pass_lithium_mine
The Thacker Pass lithium mine is a lithium clay mining development project in Humboldt County, Nevada
The location being discussed:
McDermitt Caldera in Oregon
It looks like there was some discussion that there might be lithium there a bit back, like in 2023, but this is not decade-old news.
Thacker Pass is inside the McDermitt Caldera, it’s the same deposit.
