yes, i agree. At any rate it would likely be cheaper and easier...

yes, i agree. At any rate it would likely be cheaper and easier just to make synthetic graphite using renewable energy.
there will be lots of 'plant' based stuff in the future, but alot are not that much better than other alternatives, just using plant based as marketing. You can turn plants into ethanol, then make hydrocarbons for plastic, and call it plant based. Still is the same thing as oil derived plastic.

RNU has a good resource, and we do know that making battery grade graphite is more environmentally friendly using natural graphite. Luckily we overcome lots of environmental concerns surrounding mining in general with a shallow, flat lying deposit, It is also not near any ecologically rich ground, so will have little impact. gl people.