Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "How Lithium Producer Albemarle Took Over The EV Industry" video.

  1. A dramatic reduction in extractive industries will result and it's already happening, coal mining, oil and gas are tapped and used once, coal is already dying fast in the West. (China the big exception, they continue to increase consumption) While fossils are burned one time, ALL battery elements will be endlessly recycled just like aluminum has been since day one, ultimately reducing mining to a small fraction of what it is today. 70% of all the aluminum ever mined is still in use today, likewise for Li and other batt elements in the future.
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  2. I did some contracting for the Silver Peak, Nevada brine mine in late '80's. It was a small salt flat where essentially no life could exist to start with, they pump brine from underground, extract the Li salts and when they are done, it will remain a salty flat wasteland not too different from how they found it. Not all Li mines are brine but those can be about as environmentally benign as any mine can be, the composition of remaining salts will simply be missing one component and the landscape won't be much altered, a little local subsidence is about all.
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  3. Join the 21st century? Teslas are the highest performance and safest cars ever made, and they were close to that in 2013. You should try one.
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