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An almost inexhaustible reserve of lithium discovered in Canada

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  • N notmyoldredditname@lemmy.world

    I know there’s been lots of headlines in the past like OMG there’s not enough lithium! It’s never been true.

    It’s one of the most abundant elements out there, it’s everywhere. It was always more about what reserves we knew about, but when what we knew about wasn’t going to be enough, people go looking, and it’s abundant.

    Also the more uses there are for it, the more profitable it is to extract from these methods and the better we get at it, the cheaper it is to extract, which further opens up even more options.

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    amuletta@lemmy.ca
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    I suppose it’s a bit like diamonds, which are actually really abundant, just not always very accessible.

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    • W wamgams@lemmy.ca

      Finally, good news for people with bipolar!

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      amuletta@lemmy.ca
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      Maybe Alzheimer’s as well. There is new research on lithium that shows promise for that.

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      • M MyMindIsLikeAnOcean

        …AND BC lumber, AND Ontario steel, AND maritime fish, AND everybodies’ water and minerals, etcetc

        I call it “outsourcing profits”.

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        brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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        #48

        Nooo imma pretend I didn’t read this so Canada can stay as awesome as I thought it was a minute ago

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        • circav@lemmy.caC circav@lemmy.ca

          That’s a perfect description of Carney’s MO.

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          auli@lemmy.ca
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          Weird I don’t remember Carney being PM for the last 50 plus years. Its Canadas MO doesn’t matter who is in charge.

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          • A auli@lemmy.ca

            Weird I don’t remember Carney being PM for the last 50 plus years. Its Canadas MO doesn’t matter who is in charge.

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            circav@lemmy.ca
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            Why not criticize them all??

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            • A amuletta@lemmy.ca
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              AI-powered satellites point to a massive lithium resource at a Canadian project

              Satellite-linked AI analysis suggests Quebec’s Cisco lithium project could contain about 329 million metric tons of ore, helping guide new drill targets within days.

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              twatterdale@lemmy.world
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              Now do silver

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              • M minorkeys@lemmy.world

                So extract all the value and give it to rich ppl while leaving everyone else to clean up the mess left behind?

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                chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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                This isn’t gold. The value comes from the extraction part. That’s the really expensive and dirty part. It’s like salt in the ocean: insanely abundant but prohibitively expensive to extract.

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                  mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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                  what a godawful website

                  thanks for the blocklist addition

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                  • A amuletta@lemmy.ca
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                    ikidd@lemmy.world
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                    And we’ll just keep shipping it out of the country for pennies for other countries to make value added products.

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                    • M mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca

                      what a godawful website

                      thanks for the blocklist addition

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                      gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                      Why not just do uBlock instead of individual blocklists?

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                      • M mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca

                        what a godawful website

                        thanks for the blocklist addition

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                        breadoven@lemmy.world
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                        Not backing up the site, but are you running an Adblock? I had no ads when I opened it.

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                        • M mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca

                          what a godawful website

                          thanks for the blocklist addition

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                          uncouple9831@lemmy.zip
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                          Looks fine on my browser

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                          • A antonamo

                            Wouldn’t wonder if the US discovers tomorrow that Canada is run by a drug cartel

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                            uncouple9831@lemmy.zip
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                            The US is run by a pedophile ring, so other countries being run by drug cartels isn’t that insane. Big Maple is everywhere.

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                            • W wamgams@lemmy.ca

                              Finally, good news for people with bipolar!

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                              Lemminary
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                              Hooray!.. Fuck!

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                              • M mrdown@lemmy.world

                                Don’t tell trump

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                                Lemminary
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                                He’s already sniffin’. He can smell it with his greed.

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                                • circav@lemmy.caC circav@lemmy.ca

                                  We know and that’s why we’re getting a citizen army of 300,000 and we’ll party like it’s 1812 part two electric boogaloo.

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                                  Lemminary
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                                  #61

                                  And throw tea coffee barrels into the sea. That’ll show them!

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                                  • C canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org

                                    It’s one of the most abundant elements out there

                                    I mean, it’s not. Either in the crust or the universe - stellar nucleosynthesis skips straight to carbon.

                                    Your point still stands, though, since abundance is only one of the factors that goes into how easy something is to recover.

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                                    notmyoldredditname@lemmy.world
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                                    It’s 31st in the crust, there’s more than Lead.

                                    Then it’s all over the world in other areas in higher concentrations like in brines (the easiest way for us to get it) or clays, and there’s over 200 billion tons of it in the ocean. Granted the ocean stuff would take some figuring out how to get, but it’s a ridiculous amount.

                                    Whenever we go looking for it, we keep finding vast reserves of it.

                                    Such as this just this month: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-5-trillion-lithium-deposit-114805186.html?guccounter=1

                                    Edit: for the sea water stuff, capturing it as a side product of desalination or a next step in desalination might be a starting way to begin extracting it without massively increasing costs as some of the costs will already be part of desalination, which could help bring desalination costs down via another revenue stream.

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                                    • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zoneG gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone

                                      Why not just do uBlock instead of individual blocklists?

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                                      mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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                                      I also don’t want to even go to sites that disrespect their users like this

                                      I don’t want to give them any traffic at all

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                                      • U uncouple9831@lemmy.zip

                                        Looks fine on my browser

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                                        mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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                                        yeah it looks fine once I turned ad blocking back on

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                                        • B breadoven@lemmy.world

                                          Not backing up the site, but are you running an Adblock? I had no ads when I opened it.

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                                          mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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                                          I still had ad block off when I opened it initially

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