more kids digging for rare -earth in Africa... more toxic waste
more solar panels - more large size garbage. . .
more windmills - more deaths for birds
more masks & gloves - all end up in landfill and ocean out fall to feed our aquatic friendsmore fallacies ..pure idiocy
==The cost of lithium gold
Despite plans to make EVs mainstream, the Biden administration has yet to promote cleaner options to extract lithium. Currently, lithium is extracted from open-pit mines, which could contaminate land and pollute groundwater and surrounding surface water.
However, lithium demand is expected to increase tenfold before the decade is up. Companies like Tesla, General Motors and Volkswagen have introduced dozens of new EV models, driving demand.
The United States depends largely on foreign sources of lithium. But due to growing demand, many mining companies and related businesses want to accelerate the domestic production of lithium, pressing the administration to insert a $10 billion grant program into Biden’s new infrastructure bill.
In fact, U.S. lithium miner influencers have already raised roughly $3.5 billion from Wall Street within the first three months of 2021. That is seven times the amount raised in the past 36 months, according to Bloomberg.
Plus, several lithium mines are already readying for production. In northern Nevada, workers are getting ready to blow up a mountain to dig out a giant pit for the site of a lithium mine. Native American tribes, ranchers and environmental groups are protesting the project, called Lithium Americas, because it is expected to use billions of gallons of groundwater and leave behind a giant mound of waste.
