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throwaway_12358134 t1_is0l7t9 wrote

Reply to comment by Poshtulio in South Korean researchers say they have developed an anode-free lithium-ion battery that is 40% more energy dense than existing batteries and will enable EVs to travel 630km (390 miles) on a single charge. by lughnasadh

Lithium is abundant enough on earth. Its estimated that there is about 21 million tons of lithium in the earth's crust and about 1 trillion tons of lithium in the ocean.

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userino69 t1_is0o3i5 wrote

It's irrelevant how abundant an element is in the earth's crust if we don't have the ability to mine those deposits because of their extreme depth or the current unstable dictatorship residing above it. They might as well be on Mars.

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throwaway_12358134 t1_is0pm3i wrote

Lithium is fairly equally distributed, unstable dictatorships are a problem for oil, not lithium. Lithium can be recycled too, gas cannot.

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TheNotSoEvilEngineer t1_is0qw3z wrote

Technically... Gas is a renewable, just takes a long time to go through organic sequestration and pressure to decompose and resequence the hydrocarbons into oil.

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AdorableContract0 t1_is10gi7 wrote

Stretching a definition there. Renewable is defined as less than a generation or lifetime or something.

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