Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "US Discovers Huge Lithium Deposit (What It Means...) || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. While I love your work, I find your estimates of what it takes to get any process done are way too pessimistic in general. As for the battery chemistry issue you are both spot on an off the mark. Spot on because lithium batteries are not the best for everything, but it ends up being the answer to everything. Bad, not good. There are other chemistries that are proven but are not usable in many of the applications we use lithium for today. An example is flow batteries for bulk energy storage at grid level which would be much more cost effective than lithium. But we have Musk pushing lithium batteries for the purpose. How long has he been at it, and it still is not significant and certainly not worth the money spent. Heck, for what he has spent we could use flywheels or supercapacitors and had a lot of money left over for a big party. As for research funding, there has already been lots. I live in the Chicago area, and we have Argonne National Labs here. Several years ago, they got billions (about five, I seem to recall) for just such research. Lots and lots of smart people. Did I say lots. Where is the answer? Or look at nuclear fusion research. How many billions do you want? As far as I can tell, it is still at least a decade away (yes, that is what they are saying in the UK for example today) from practical use, as it has been for several decades. There are some things that may never be practical no matter how much money you throw at them. Sometimes the answer lies somewhere else.
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