No word about the 18 indigenous communities that live in the area and whose water has been disappearing for years. Great, balanced piece of reporting, Bloomberg! No wonder this world is doomed, if it only takes a few beautiful images to convive people that all is done super responsibly and everyone is singing Kumbaja together in the evening around a camp fire.
@@DiablueKnight yet we are here, and for that matter, I am a native. I say increasing knowledge and expanding technology is worth a couple bumps here and there. How do you think an omelette is made?
Not true I work in a chemical manufacture facility as a chemical tech we make our own electrolyte fuel for these battery’s and so do most company’s idk what this guys talking about in the video. Just thought I’d share that
Big Oil always uses these horrible polluting lithium mines as one of their talking points against renewables not worth it, glad the mainstream can see what they actually look like. Also, like he points out, the batteries are only 2% lithium, that's not very much needed per battery.
good points, i mean the mines are probably not 100% environment friendly, who really knows. But definitely way way better than extracting oil which is so damaging to the environment, specially when there is an oil spill. Looks clean
krlitos Mining has to be done for every Car produced, regardless if its gas or Electric, the difference is Electric is better for our Air/Atmosphere, then it's just a matter of developing Recycling Chemistry/ Procedure/Legislation and Power that Recycling with Renewables. Related, look up Ambri Inc. and Both their Liquid Metal batteries and New Efficient Process for refining Metals
The process used to produce copper is the same as lithium. Saturate ground which is rich with copper sulfate with water, let it dry up in pools to crystallize. And you don't here anyone complaining about copper mines.
Big A I completly agree and what's more important is for the batteries to be recycled the same with everything. we need to change the way we do things we can reuse recycle products fix products as well. 30% of co2 emissions come from manufacturing therefore we need to have a society that fixes instead of throwing away
The magnesium sulfide is used to separate the lithium into an aqueous solution. In addition they suck the minerals from underground and put them into pounds so they sun can dry the solution into salts. Wow you really didnt pay attention pal. I wonder if highscool was hard for you. If you finished. No offense
Sean Flores where in hillbilly bumpkin did your corny ass come from? You’re the stupid one, doesn’t take a second glance for anyone to realize how worthless you are as a life form. Sad.
Always makes laugh when you see someone write a comment about raping our planet of natural resources. These are the same people who go to the same schools, drive the same cars, and live in the same houses as what we all do. I understand we do need to manage our planets natural resources i get that. But do something about it, get involved in what you preach instead of commenting on UA-cam video,s. It is an education for us who never took school seriously when we had the time too, or of those of us did not have the chance to learn.
I'm doing research about the potential of recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries, and there are companies now like Li-Cycle that are expanding that process. I hope that keeps on improving.
I'm an electrical engineer, what prevents recycling? It's just a a metal, melt it down. I understand it has carbon in it, burn that. Does the electrolyte prevent it? I've never understood why these wouldn't be completely recyclable. Is it the energy that it takes to recycle it so monumental that it's not cost effective?
Why would anyone more videos like this, unless they want to be ignorant. The source of the juice" in lithium batteries is the energy consumed at the power that power used to charge the battery
@@vuvu3421 the point of making this video is to show you that there is no guarantee, but 100% of the world's lithium present in cell phone batteries comes from Chile. They have nice sunsets and nice pink flamingos too 😅
All this talk about lithium mines killing animals just like any other mineral mine, but neglecting to notice that unlike coal, lithium is like lead in the sense that it's highly recyclable and like lead, straight mining from the ground will of course be severely reduced once there is already enough lithium circulating around the world market to viably recycle, just like how lead from lead acid batteries are typically recycled nowadays.
It boggles the mind how men, begin and run enterprises like this...The logistics are humbling to consider and this is easy mining...Those gold, diamond, oil mines, and many other commodities are huge endeavors are so extensive it makes you wonder who could have done it all!...I learn something new everyday on UA-cam; After 12 years and thousands of hours, it never ceases to surprise me! Thanks youtube...:)
Emily Pearce I know you don’t have any clue about anything but lithium is recycled and reused. At some point mining will drop severely for it and enough will be circulated around.
Where the juice comes from; NOT how lithium is processed. This video was accurate to it’s title and I quite liked the cometary on the conditions of the mine and surrounding ecological issues. Great video.
IV Stra̮n̮g̮e̮ alright smartass, back tf up. You still get the gist of what I’m trying to say. Now get back in the dark hole you came out of. Fucking weirdo
i thought it was interesting that he laughed at that joke but then made a snarky remark about it in editing, these sensitive types won't actually bring it up to your face, only passive aggressive words online :)
There comes a time that even lithium gets to be obsolete as source for battery's. And having a contingent plan to restore the soil or the environment again by some other projects.
I feel much better knowing this uber serious journalist is watching out for potentially sexist comments and is educating us as to what is and isn't appropriate. Thanks Bloomberg for making it happen!
To be fair though, the comment: "colors only women know the name of" is based on science. One study suggests that as many as 50% of women and 8% of men may have the type of fourth color receptor whose sensitivity peak is between the standard red and green receptors, granting them a significant increase in color differentiation. You learn something every day, huh.
I was always under the assumption that you were supposed to stick batteries up your ass. I'm supposed to be drinking them instead? You learn something new everyday.
All these comments whining about the video not explaining the process of the juice stuff getting to the phones when the video literally says nothing about it showing the process. The title says "where you're phone juice comes from" and the video shows just that.
Right? They have to get the water from somewhere, and they're in the middle of a desert so there's not a lot of sources. Of course they're ruining the local ecosystem, and he knows it.
Excuse sir I beg to differ: Chile has the talent, infrastructure and resources to produce batteries under competitive standards. It could even be sustainable if it took recycling into account from the start. They could also take advantage from solar energy building panels across miles of desert. What holds them back has to do with other factors.
Why bother with solar pannels taking up all that wildlife habitat when a nuclear power plant is a postage stamp by comparison produces steam and some radioactive waste as a byproduct. The latter if stored properly will never cause a problem for anyone. And can also be recycled. Solar is for houses and building where transmission is a non factor. Not for giant habitat destroying projects.
@@BlueGoblin1 Electric Vehicles in REALITY are far worse for the environment. They damage our natural habitat creating longer term pollutants. There is a real dirty side of Lithium mines. Politicians always close there eyes for the facts.
The Boric government is putting time, money, energy and people into creating battery factories for large size models that can capture energy for solar plants. Tesla is not the target for Chile, if we start producing batteries its gonna be for large size batteries for factories to store energy. Now to understand why they are not worried about exploiting this area yet, the mining focuses on massive volumes of extraction and exportation to the whole world, they think that their energy must be in reaching those volumes before slowing down to produce detailed tecnologies such as batteries… Now I do think both products can be done without affecting one and other, but these guys dont want to get distracted I guess 😂
Lithium is such a great invention I would be more than happy for corporations to offset their environmental liabilities against me in order to have it.
. Your electric car battery contains twenty-five pounds of lithium, sixty pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminium, steel, and plastic. Inside me are 6,831 individual lithium-ion cells. It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining. For instance, to manufacture each auto battery like me, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just - one - battery. Did I mention disease and child labour? Here’s why. Sixty-eight percent of the world’s cobalt, a significant part of a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no pollution controls and they employ children who die from handling this toxic material. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part of the cost of driving an electric car?” no, they’re not our kids, anyway, serves them right for being poor, that’s progressive green thinking right?
Oil used to seep out of the ground before people knew what it was. Los Angeles even has a tar pit. Not too long ago, a capped offshore oil well started leaking oil off the coast of California. It had been abandoned because the owners believed it had dried up. I say Use it or lose it!
Tesla: SQM can you ramp up production, so we can produce more batteries. SQM : sure , just the government is trying to restrict us, and environmentalist are worried about the flamingo. Tesla: let's breed more in captivity and problem solved.
What a great company that is fixing the environment yup no way they are just yet another soulless corporation trying to make as much money as possible.
Import restrictions only apply to completed vehicles. Iconic JDM cars are often disassembled and sold as kit cars, so if you're handy with a wrench, you can order the engine parts and assemble it yourself. Or pay someone else to do it for you
So the world is pissed we are draining oil resources. So we start draining lithium instead. I wonder what the outrage will be in a century when folks start saying "we are running out of lithium!" like they say with oil now.
Just like every other Bloomberg documentary ; highly informative, precise and quality is just amazing. Well done team Bloomberg! Keep producing videos like this. (I feel one like and a comment is not enough to appreciate your efforts) Best wishes from India ! :)
Great.....thanks for that um....completely useless video that showed us nothing about the process. "Here's some ponds, OMG smart phone juice lel, oh and the sunsets are nice mkay".
@@andrewtupua4039 Yeah so just have a picture of South America then, if you've gone to the effort to go to these places, might as well show the whole process!
the batteries aren't made at the mining site, as with most mines it probably isn't in a place convenient enough for storing equipment and bringing in all the manufacturing staff
@@0xbitbybit They only mine the materials to make batteries. Besides, there are other videos that have covered how batteries are made already, however, not many show where the materials actually come from or how beautiful a desolate salt plain can be.
Mountain Dew before bottled.
Jokaine: Fiji Water underwater spring
Cocaine: Mountain dew chilean mountain spring
I just took a sip of Mountain Dew while reading your comment
Mountain Dew before harvested
it has electrolites
Nasty Acids & chemicals that destroy the earth !!
3:04 I couldn't guarantee it, but its pretty sure that almost 100% sure
couldn't agree more!
Chileans being Chileans 😂
Spur of the moment thing, he didn’t know what to say, he is probably not native English speaker
That's an amazing statement.
English is hard :/. We native English speakers take it for granted
No word about the 18 indigenous communities that live in the area and whose water has been disappearing for years. Great, balanced piece of reporting, Bloomberg! No wonder this world is doomed, if it only takes a few beautiful images to convive people that all is done super responsibly and everyone is singing Kumbaja together in the evening around a camp fire.
Sucks to be them but progress marches forward no?
@@blastermaster7261 And that viewpoint is the monster that will destroy the world and any humanity we claim to have.
@@DiablueKnight yet we are here, and for that matter, I am a native. I say increasing knowledge and expanding technology is worth a couple bumps here and there. How do you think an omelette is made?
@@DiablueKnight leftism is a mental illness
@@blastermaster7261 exactly. The world has changed and will continue to change as time moves on
"I couldn't guarantee it but it's pretty sure that it's almost 100% sure that part of your smartphone went through this pond at one point" Love it
Almost 100% could mean 90%, 97% meaning almost 100% but not quite there.
only a spoonful....it's nothing! lithium for health!
It's not easy thinking in Spanish and having the words come out in English.
Add a camera for the whole world can see you no pressure.. lol
perhaps redundant, but it still actually makes sense structurally.
Not true I work in a chemical manufacture facility as a chemical tech we make our own electrolyte fuel for these battery’s and so do most company’s idk what this guys talking about in the video. Just thought I’d share that
“It’s got electrolytes! It’s what plants crave!”
Water? You mean like out of the toilet?
LOLOL!!!! Idiocracy!
“I like money, and boobs”
Oh wait! this one goes in your mouth
welcome to costco i love you
Screw the lithium, what is that special steel they use for the pickups? I would love to have a Tacoma with a corrosion resistant frame.
Michael Coler hilux and taco is similar
Michael Coler They coat it with Rust-Oleum and seal it with rubber
Michael Coler aluminum?
Its probably so god damn expensive that it doesn't make sense to make consumer grade pickups with it. Car companies need turn over rates as well.
Michael Coler go ahead and ask toyota...
Big Oil always uses these horrible polluting lithium mines as one of their talking points against renewables not worth it, glad the mainstream can see what they actually look like. Also, like he points out, the batteries are only 2% lithium, that's not very much needed per battery.
good points, i mean the mines are probably not 100% environment friendly, who really knows. But definitely way way better than extracting oil which is so damaging to the environment, specially when there is an oil spill. Looks clean
krlitos Mining has to be done for every Car produced, regardless if its gas or Electric, the difference is Electric is better for our Air/Atmosphere, then it's just a matter of developing Recycling Chemistry/ Procedure/Legislation and Power that Recycling with Renewables. Related, look up Ambri Inc. and Both their Liquid Metal batteries and New Efficient Process for refining Metals
+Big A; Indeed, and lithium batteries can be recycled. Look for video "Renault - The circular economy electric vehicles batteries" .
The process used to produce copper is the same as lithium. Saturate ground which is rich with copper sulfate with water, let it dry up in pools to crystallize. And you don't here anyone complaining about copper mines.
Big A
I completly agree and what's more important is for the batteries to be recycled the same with everything. we need to change the way we do things we can reuse recycle products fix products as well. 30% of co2 emissions come from manufacturing therefore we need to have a society that fixes instead of throwing away
who wants to take a dip?
A R: I was looking for a comment like this! XD
Fine cut or long cut
wow. this narrator sounds like he does not care
Yes, he's very unprofesional with his 5 year old's questions
5:16 Of course they HAD to dub a truck horn sound here, like on every other TV show.
also sounds just like ets2
😂😂 sounds like games lol
You've just ruined television for me.
Expecting to learn something about the lithium production: the flamingos are losing water, the sunset is pretty, bye...
Great
The magnesium sulfide is used to separate the lithium into an aqueous solution. In addition they suck the minerals from underground and put them into pounds so they sun can dry the solution into salts. Wow you really didnt pay attention pal. I wonder if highscool was hard for you. If you finished. No offense
Finance and entrepreneurial marketing major, 3.73 gpa
@@Bloo57999 oh you're doing financing and marketing and you cant handle simple information. Lol 3.78 gpa will soon be 2.21gpa again no offense
Graduated...
U suck at knowing my life...
best article in ages
Kesmond Boats "article"
Victor .O well i should say script
Kesmond Boats it's a documentary....
Victor .O script- the written text of a play, movie or broadcast. They had to develop a script first before they even started filming.☺
Sean Flores where in hillbilly bumpkin did your corny ass come from? You’re the stupid one, doesn’t take a second glance for anyone to realize how worthless you are as a life form. Sad.
I thought "it's out of juice" was just a saying this whole time.🤯
Always makes laugh when you see someone write a comment about raping our planet of natural resources.
These are the same people who go to the same schools, drive the same cars, and live in the same houses as what we all do.
I understand we do need to manage our planets natural resources i get that. But do something about it, get involved in what you preach instead of commenting on UA-cam video,s.
It is an education for us who never took school seriously when we had the time too, or of those of us did not have the chance to learn.
Peter CCR ENG - you forgot, then they throw their cigarette butt on the ground and step on it.
**videos*
Peter CCR ENG dont forget all the pollution that was released in the creation of the device they used to access the internet to make the comment
Joe wang greedy ass people that's who
Joe wang me.
I'm doing research about the potential of recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries, and there are companies now like Li-Cycle that are expanding that process. I hope that keeps on improving.
Can you share with me please. I will not have to waste time
Do deeper reaserch and youll find child labor in lithium productions
@r33mote what would be the incentive for such a suggestion?
I'm an electrical engineer, what prevents recycling? It's just a a metal, melt it down. I understand it has carbon in it, burn that. Does the electrolyte prevent it? I've never understood why these wouldn't be completely recyclable. Is it the energy that it takes to recycle it so monumental that it's not cost effective?
@@Eastern1 So you want to waste someone else's time? 😄
I want more videos like this!!!
Why would anyone more videos like this, unless they want to be ignorant. The source of the juice" in lithium batteries is the energy consumed at the power that power used to charge the battery
"This sunset's here are everyday amazing, you have all these different colours that only women know the names"
This shits hard
How
Mankind is so intelligent. It's amazing how far we have come making break throughs and discovering new technologies from the planet earth!
Amen👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾very true!
That's true, but it's a shame our intellignece is also killing nature :(
Never have I seen so much ignorance as you three
This guy is so characterless. The engineer is cool.
You're a douche!
He sounds bored. Or upset that he was given this assignment.
The engineer is high on natures anti depressant.
Not one word on how the liquid becomes a battery. Nice job.
Read the title of the video
@@adwftkv3184 so what is the point of making this video?
@@vuvu3421 I guess reading the title is too confusing? The point of this video is to show you *where the juice that powers batteries comes from*
@@vuvu3421 the point of making this video is to show you that there is no guarantee, but 100% of the world's lithium present in cell phone batteries comes from Chile. They have nice sunsets and nice pink flamingos too 😅
All this talk about lithium mines killing animals just like any other mineral mine, but neglecting to notice that unlike coal, lithium is like lead in the sense that it's highly recyclable and like lead, straight mining from the ground will of course be severely reduced once there is already enough lithium circulating around the world market to viably recycle, just like how lead from lead acid batteries are typically recycled nowadays.
4G12 it’s not even mines really it’s pumped which is not as bad as coal which needs to be drilled
Who recycles them? 95% of the things we make claim to be fully recyclable yet somehow most of it ends up in the dirt regardless.
This is a lot easier on the eyes than a massive open pit lithium mine.
How was the sunset ?
Me : it was beautiful it had colors only women know
So true
@Aidan S woosh
@@bernardohenriques7342 STUPID. That didn't even fit in here.
@Happy Happy you just see the world as offensive, therefor why you're a trangender, begome white knight lady with a dick.
@Happy Happy Everything is offensive to you guys.
So many elements in one area... Truly amazing.
your body have even more types of mineral.
@@Lights480 hank from braking brad hank from braking brad hank from braking brad hank from braking brad
The guides name is Alejandro Bucheck. Brother of most famous Kazakhstan pop star, Korky Bucheck. Bing bong bing bing bing bingity bong bong.
Underrated comment 😂
Everyone: *complains about youtube reccomendtions*
UA-cam: "but you clicked and watched it;)"
Aaah yet human curiosity always gets the better of us .....
I feel like a Bond villain would own this
Not that far off.
The Flamingo ponds are upstream from the mine, they get the water first. That's why the mine has no actual impact on them.
"...dry hot salty condition...", just like youtube comment
💀
It boggles the mind how men, begin and run enterprises like this...The logistics are humbling to consider and this is easy mining...Those gold, diamond, oil mines, and many other commodities are huge endeavors are so extensive it makes you wonder who could have done it all!...I learn something new everyday on UA-cam; After 12 years and thousands of hours, it never ceases to surprise me! Thanks youtube...:)
this is mine of the future, much better than oil or coal mining
hyou zan ren carbon batteries do the same thing with no government restrictions
Until...it runs out.
Emily Pearce I know you don’t have any clue about anything but lithium is recycled and reused. At some point mining will drop severely for it and enough will be circulated around.
Except this mine doesn’t produce a fuel...
Where the juice comes from; NOT how lithium is processed.
This video was accurate to it’s title and I quite liked the cometary on the conditions of the mine and surrounding ecological issues. Great video.
Nobody:
Not a single soul:
UA-cam Recommendations: *bAtTery jUice*
You clicked on It though. The algorithm knows best
- J u n i o r - at least you tried
There is no such thing as "Enviromentaly friendly" in our corporate run world ✌
Crazy how a place that’s so Chile can evaporate water so quickly 😮
Quick question...
Can I drink the battery juice?
yes,you drink all liquids material,cant guarantee safety tho.
And youll become flash but make sure you charge yourself everyday so you dont get stuck in the middle of the road.
As long as you have a health insurance, you can
BYD's CEO drank his company's "battery acid" to prove it is safe.
3:04 "I couldn't guarantee it but I'm pretty sure...I'm almost 100% sure part of ur smartphone battery comes from here"
Logic out the window
@@aimanghazi7043 how so??
Almost 100% Is NOT 100%... therefore he can’t guarantee it because your cheap ass could have a cheap Chinese phone with some other lithium in it
There is also ni-cd batteries. Seen them in cheap power tools.
Xbox gamers, we must take this area and protect it at all costs
Indeed
People act like we really need batteries to play... Smh
Xbox gamers:
Not
Xbox gamers,
Xbox (gay)mers
IV Stra̮n̮g̮e̮ alright smartass, back tf up. You still get the gist of what I’m trying to say. Now get back in the dark hole you came out of. Fucking weirdo
I got a battery ad right before this video.
Lol
Now México has the biggest lithium reserve between Sonora and Chihuahua desert as of 2019.
“....colors only women know the name of.” 😂😂😂 you’re too right man. I can’t believe Bloomberg actually left that part in lol
SHREKKEDONIONS why it’s not offensive...
@@scottking8189 peos jou ma se peos
Women can actually see more colors.
i thought it was interesting that he laughed at that joke but then made a snarky remark about it in editing, these sensitive types won't actually bring it up to your face, only passive aggressive words online :)
@@21area21 where'd u find this bullshit and eat it up? Stupid sheep
Ponds of sauce for beyond beef burgers. 100% natural.
There comes a time that even lithium gets to be obsolete as source for battery's. And having a contingent plan to restore the soil or the environment again by some other projects.
restore the soil? It's a desert.
Will Davis WOOOSH
engineer tells him this is magnesium chloride, dufus says so this is lithium
Just wondering where they get that much fresh water!
Not responsible for flamingos but takes water from lagoons that flamingos use, makes sense
The Flamingo ponds are upstream from the mine, they get the water first. That's why the mine has no actual impact on them.
Once again UA-cam recommendations pull us back together !
Not me, I actually searched for this. xd
Can someone please help me. I want to know how the extraction of lithium affects water levels and if it poisons the water
I feel much better knowing this uber serious journalist is watching out for potentially sexist comments and is educating us as to what is and isn't appropriate. Thanks Bloomberg for making it happen!
At least one thing my country does right that I don't need to be ashamed of. Kudos.
Chile is better than a lot of other south American countries
To be fair though, the comment: "colors only women know the name of" is based on science. One study suggests that as many as 50% of women and 8% of men may have the type of fourth color receptor whose sensitivity peak is between the standard red and green receptors, granting them a significant increase in color differentiation.
You learn something every day, huh.
The new WHITE "oil".
Looked green to me, but what do I know... only women know for sure
Mr Bean With you ignorance is bliss and 'tarded.
Carlos Malave maybe you're colorblind...
The white stuff is magnesium chloride. Not sure if they sell any of that.
Thats fucking racist
Lmao I always thought batteries were energy shots and always drank them
I was always under the assumption that you were supposed to stick batteries up your ass. I'm supposed to be drinking them instead? You learn something new everyday.
All these comments whining about the video not explaining the process of the juice stuff getting to the phones when the video literally says nothing about it showing the process. The title says "where you're phone juice comes from" and the video shows just that.
4:53 I wish I could lie to myself with such conviction
Right? They have to get the water from somewhere, and they're in the middle of a desert so there's not a lot of sources. Of course they're ruining the local ecosystem, and he knows it.
Of course Bloomberg would try to make lithium ion mining look pretty and amazing.
Just think they use the lithium for anti depressants as well
Registered.Murse RN get me a 100 gallon trash can and a five foot straw. I’m going in!
So?
Looks like worse environmental impact then oil wells?
A cheerful attitude that may not even exist in a solitary human in the U.S.
I had absolutely no idea it'd look that cool!!
Excuse sir I beg to differ: Chile has the talent, infrastructure and resources to produce batteries under competitive standards. It could even be sustainable if it took recycling into account from the start. They could also take advantage from solar energy building panels across miles of desert. What holds them back has to do with other factors.
Why bother with solar pannels taking up all that wildlife habitat when a nuclear power plant is a postage stamp by comparison produces steam and some radioactive waste as a byproduct. The latter if stored properly will never cause a problem for anyone. And can also be recycled. Solar is for houses and building where transmission is a non factor. Not for giant habitat destroying projects.
@@BlueGoblin1 Electric Vehicles in REALITY are far worse for the environment. They damage our natural habitat creating longer term pollutants. There is a real dirty side of Lithium mines. Politicians always close there eyes for the facts.
I'm surprised China hasn't invested in to the country to make the batteries
@@Hassle68 Now you know why Chile isn’t producing batteries…
The Boric government is putting time, money, energy and people into creating battery factories for large size models that can capture energy for solar plants. Tesla is not the target for Chile, if we start producing batteries its gonna be for large size batteries for factories to store energy. Now to understand why they are not worried about exploiting this area yet, the mining focuses on massive volumes of extraction and exportation to the whole world, they think that their energy must be in reaching those volumes before slowing down to produce detailed tecnologies such as batteries… Now I do think both products can be done without affecting one and other, but these guys dont want to get distracted I guess 😂
Gateraid with pulp anyone?
"He spent years living in the void" @me and my depression
Lithium is such a great invention I would be more than happy for corporations to offset their environmental liabilities against me in order to have it.
Lithium is made by a super Nova. All of the lithium on our planet has been here since the beginning
One of the largest lithium mines in the world is in Western Australia
there's also Bolivia as a source of lithium
ephoenix7 They have 40% of the world’s lithium.
This only encourages my hopes about the future of graphene
looking forward to flamingo's breeding program by Tesla 6:00
. Your electric car battery contains twenty-five pounds of lithium, sixty pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminium, steel, and plastic. Inside me are 6,831 individual lithium-ion cells. It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining. For instance, to manufacture each auto battery like me, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just - one - battery. Did I mention disease and child labour? Here’s why. Sixty-eight percent of the world’s cobalt, a significant part of a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no pollution controls and they employ children who die from handling this toxic material. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part of the cost of driving an electric car?” no, they’re not our kids, anyway, serves them right for being poor, that’s progressive green thinking right?
@04:54 'no impact '....of course a company engineer is going to say that. total BS. where are they getting the water from... the lake of course.
We can't drill oil because it harms the environment! But let's go green with electric cars and drill for lithium instead
Oil used to seep out of the ground before people knew what it was. Los Angeles even has a tar pit. Not too long ago, a capped offshore oil well started leaking oil off the coast of California. It had been abandoned because the owners believed it had dried up. I say Use it or lose it!
0:33 probably cheerful because he has a hard liquor bottle in his car.
"I'm so happy, cause today I found my friends"
DJ Adams im so ugly but thats okay cause so are you
@@dreguevara2056 we broke ours mirrors, sunday morning is everyday for all I care
He’s so nice and professional. He took responsibility for the flamingo problem
No, he didn't - he said their issue is not caused by the mining
So .... they are FRACKING for lithium
Do birds land in these pools? Strange not to have seen any wildlife around these huge man made ponds.
This is one of the driest places on the planet. There is almost no life at all there. It is boxed in by mountains and the ocean. No birds here.
Tesla: SQM can you ramp up production, so we can produce more batteries.
SQM : sure , just the government is trying to restrict us, and environmentalist are worried about the flamingo.
Tesla: let's breed more in captivity and problem solved.
What a great company that is fixing the environment yup no way they are just yet another soulless corporation trying to make as much money as possible.
Just one thing: why can't we get these awsome standard diesel Toyota trucks in the U.S.??? Would take one over Chevy!!!✌️👁️
You might be able to find a bobtail somewhere that technically meets this criteria😉
Import restrictions only apply to completed vehicles. Iconic JDM cars are often disassembled and sold as kit cars, so if you're handy with a wrench, you can order the engine parts and assemble it yourself. Or pay someone else to do it for you
Wow, great colours shade pools!
Would definitely be worthwhile to learn how to make batteries
Who else got this on their recommendations
I just wanna know what would happen if u jumped in 😂😂
ROBLOX sound effect plays : *oOf*
You get energized
you'd be pulled into the depths of the sea and never emerge
You'll be like Kick Buttowski after drinking (awesome voice) *CHEETAH CHUG*
It's a toxic substances it could kill you or cause severe burns.
Sometimes the depths of human ingenuity are astonishing.
So the world is pissed we are draining oil resources. So we start draining lithium instead. I wonder what the outrage will be in a century when folks start saying "we are running out of lithium!" like they say with oil now.
“Different colors that Only women know the names” LOL
*throws a cigarette in it...💥*
Just like every other Bloomberg documentary ; highly informative, precise and quality is just amazing.
Well done team Bloomberg!
Keep producing videos like this.
(I feel one like and a comment is not enough to appreciate your efforts)
Best wishes from India ! :)
What do you do with the info?
Canada has lithium as well, but it is in pegmatite form, not brine. Takes more energy to extract and process but a source of lithium nonetheless.
lol but they won’t DARE show the cobalt mines in Africa. Smh
Great video!
thanks!
I would drag race the fuck out of those Hilux in that area.
That is atlantian reactor juice
You know its dimensionally
Shifted might burn your hand off comes from engines
It never seems to amaze me how humans find ways to exploit the planet we live on
as you type on your smart phone.
@@markbiggs4788 so everyone with a phone or food exploits the planet 🤡 🤡🤡
A way lot better an safer then oil ! That beautiful radioactive green color !
Imagine thinking that there's a climate crisis to justify the destruction of lands with lithium mines like those
Great.....thanks for that um....completely useless video that showed us nothing about the process. "Here's some ponds, OMG smart phone juice lel, oh and the sunsets are nice mkay".
The title clearly says "Here's Where the Juice That Powers Batteries Comes From", not "This is how batteries are made" lol..
its about where it comes from bruh
@@andrewtupua4039 Yeah so just have a picture of South America then, if you've gone to the effort to go to these places, might as well show the whole process!
the batteries aren't made at the mining site, as with most mines it probably isn't in a place convenient enough for storing equipment and bringing in all the manufacturing staff
@@0xbitbybit They only mine the materials to make batteries. Besides, there are other videos that have covered how batteries are made already, however, not many show where the materials actually come from or how beautiful a desolate salt plain can be.
and they say electric cars are eco friendly? doesn't seem so
Shawn Koehler Paradox
Life ain’t easy for a boy named Ashley
3:15 I had a sudden urge for some fresh lemonade
why does the narrator sound so bored