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by otherotherchris 1529 days ago
The world has a nearly infinite supply of lithium.

Evaporating naturally occurring brine in poverty stricken shitholes is just a lazier way of extracting the tiny amount that we've used historically rather than capital intensive extraction from spodumene, clay, and geothermal or desalination wastewater.

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> Evaporating naturally occurring brine in poverty stricken shitholes

Come to think of it, I guess Nevada is a poverty stricken shithole, but it's my poverty stricken shithole and I'm proud of it.