I love how that's tagged "sustainable mining" as if mining anything can actually be sustainable.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2024
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I mean, it's about as sustainable as you can get on earth I would imagine, there's a huge amount of lithium in seawater. It would take an insanely long time to deplete the 180000000000 tons of lithium in sea water.
yea its just using the word sustain when removing something non-renewable makes me chuckle
Well I would postulate, as a complete layperson, that the amount of lithium leaching out of rocks into the ocean is more per year than we could realistically extract. So in a way, it could be sustainable.
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