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Lawrence L.'s avatar

Forget about the PRICE of lithium and start worrying about its availability. At 2019 rates of mining (pre-Covid) it would take 9,920 years to obtain enough lithium, and 7,100 years to obtain enough vanadium to build ONE generation (20-25 years worth) of wind and solar to replace all fossil fuels. Both of those numbers exceed the known reserves of those metals. I've cued the video below to the crux but the whole thing is worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBVmnKuBocc&t=2400s

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Brother Ass's avatar

“Europe can thank the Democrats and the Biden administration for their war against” Russia, and especially the insane anti-Russia sanctions, for the current energy crisis.

There. I fixed that sentence to reflect the REAL cause of Europe’s woes. Even if the U.S. were at max energy production, there wouldn’t be much to spare for the Europeans.

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