The curse of 'white oil': electric vehicles' dirty secret

[ajdelange]

yeah but they do contain lithium.

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium, and silicon, and silver, and samarium
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium

 

[Crissa]

There's ...

Are you trying to argue that despite the two words share a root, that lithium isn't common in the lithosphere?

It doesn't seem like a productive argument to have, to take something poetic and try to argue against it when in fact, it has a kernel of truth.

-Crissa

 

[FutureBoy]

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium, and silicon, and silver, and samarium
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium

 

[Timoj]

They're doing that too (see e-fuel) and, of course, nature does it.

At what cost.... you’ll notice all of those projects are perpetually funded by fossil fuel interests to provide doubt and an excuse to stall the transition to renewables generally.