Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Will We Run Out Of Lithium?" video.

  1. "You are to science education as Philip Glass is to music..." Philip Glass, the famous taxi driver who was flagged down on Broadway while his music was being premiered at Lincoln Center? I dunno. Can David Kipping pass the test for his license? Or will he, sob, end up the Billie Holiday of science education, unable to get his cabaret card?
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  2. We will run out of everything if we make it cheap enough. We won't run out of anything if we make it expensive enough. "Will we run out of X?" is a stupid question if the context doesn't include the prices. A small complication: we haven't gotten around to pricing garbage correctly yet, so there are very few beer cans in my local gutters but there sure are a lot of take-out coffee cups. Beer cans pay you to take them back but coffee cups are free. Garbage tends to be stuff with negative market prices that gets given away free: it's over-priced so there's an oversupply.
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