[Nasrudith]

It isn't a matter of belief - lithium mining hardly qualifies as mining environmentally compared to other methods including oil wells and ore mining of various methods. There is a lot of misinformation and FUD involving Lithium Mining.

It involves brine pools in salt plains. Water usage is the only real concern. Not to be ignored but it won't leave any superfund sites, cancer hotspots, turn rivers dead but colorful with tailings, or oil spills.

[giantg2]

Actually it will kill/impact aquatic life up to 150 miles downstream. That brine you talk of is not just sodium chloride, but many types of salts, acids, and other contaminants or processing agents. The reason they aren't Superfund sites is because they exist in less developed nations that dont have the same laws.

It's probably a step in the right direction, but I'm looking forward to supercapacitors or alternative battery tech.