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knselektor t1_itiyvhw wrote

it seems very little lithium for all the things that needs batteries

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cptnobveus t1_itiztto wrote

I thought the same. Are we missing something?

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strabad t1_itjj3fh wrote

One part of it seeming strange is how freakishly light lithium is, as this info graphic is measured in tonnes, it skews the perspective. That much lithium is 7 million cubic feet in volume.

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fiendishrabbit t1_itjw3d7 wrote

Which would be about 200000 cubic meters.

Lithium weighs just 530 kg per cubic meter. Which means if you coated lithium with a polymer (to avoid the very intense reaction lithium has with water) it would easily float.

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Emergency-Wave-5335 t1_itk8vf4 wrote

I need this in football fields or bananas

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fiendishrabbit t1_itko84i wrote

If we stacked all of the lithium mined in 2021 in a single american football field the resulting cuboid would be about as tall as a 4 story building.

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