Elon states that lithium is the third most common element in the universe 0:34. Maybe in his universe. For the rest of us lithium isn't even in the top twenty most abundant.
The lithium extraction process uses a lot of water-approximately 500,000 gallons per metric ton of lithium. To extract lithium, miners drill a hole in salt flats and pump salty, mineral-rich brine to the surface. ... Lithium extraction harms the soil and causes air contamination. 😂
Musk said: lithium is the third most common element in the universe. But according to science, oxygen is the third most common element in the universe. Lithium is not even in the top ten
Lithium is the third most common element in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, which is where most of the matter in our universe comes from. Why lithium is so rare on our planet and in our astronomical observations is an open question widely discussed by physicists.
if we had nuclear fusion energy we could have energy and neutron to bombard hydrogen to turn it into lithium... you could also split certain elements to get lithium
At full production of 800,000 cars/year production, the lithium supplies are estimated to last 17 years. After that, recycling will jack up the costs. It's a monopoly concern, like oil. Prices go up and you're locked in to it for battery replacements. That does not concern Elon Musk. The US taxpayer may may fund regime change in the lithium triangle to meet that 17 year profit margin. Deal with it.
@@eduardoroca1991 That's why I like hydrogen. It's not the most efficient, but it's there for everyone. You just need CCUS fossil fuel and/or renewable electricity from wind/solar/hydrogen, etc.
That assumes that the identified extractable lithium supply doesn't increase. It has increased 3 times in the last decade. Also, if extracting it from the ocean becomes profitable, it will probably last us as long as we need or until another technology replaces it.
No. It’s mined by 40,000 children (35 cents a day pay) and adults ($2. For 24 hours work), in The Congo. Then sold to China who make batteries that are sold to rich Americans to drive EV cars. Isn’t that “green” of them?
I hate when people say Elon Musk is so innovative, WOW, he put batteries in a car, but cannot find a better and more plentiful material then lithium. I guess he done innovating.
"3rd most plentiful element in the universe" HA. He's not rich because he's smart, he's rich cause dad owns an emerald mine. How is he gonna go to the nearest solar system or nearest planet for that matter and extract lithium?
@@michaelg8642 hydro has reached its ultimate potential and already providing 7 % of primary energy and no more dams under construcion due to heavy loss of habitat and humans settlements. Geothermal not available everywhere. Solar and wind looks promising but today only count for less than 3 % and it has to replace remaining 86 % of fossil fuels. It's not that easy as it looks. I don't see much governments are insisting on the amount which is needed. I support nuclear but its non renewable.
@@mandarkokate5613 nuclear is not renewable but there is plenty of nucleus for ages to come :). In the cold war alone USA had 77 000 warheads. Imagine them being used for nuclear power...
@@mandarkokate5613 The best source of clean and reliable energy is nuclear and wood or charcoal powered power plants.Even solar and wind is good but fails many times and solar panels lots of petroleum products for manufacture.
The one million dollar question that no one wants to ask or answer is: How does lithium mining solve anything? Energy needed for them batteries is still mostly produced by burning fossil fuel.
just change to renewable, its easy doable and makes more profit and is happening right now, fossil is no longer the primary resource, it happens quickly because coal is no longer profitable. even with 100% fossil energy it would still be significantly better for the environment, but its going 100% renewable very soon. nothing motivates more than money
@@JohnSmith-pn2vl fossil fuels burn more efficiently in the power plants that power the grid than they do in a car’s engine. So its still better either way
@@huffmancollins614 it's still bad and there is no reason to do it, because any non renewable will eventually run out on top of all the health issues it creates while costing more.
@@MegaSnow121 70+ million cars are made every year. On the top of that cellphones, laptops and other electronic items are also being made. We also have planes, boats, ships and many other vechiles. All these needs Li if u are planning to fully electricify. He didn't address any concern about this. I dont think he is ignorant about this. Hiding the truth for personal gain is also considered deception. If u simply say 2%, eventhough its true, people wont understand how much it is because percentage is relative. 2% water in a mug is miniscule compared to 2% of water in an ocean. If he was being honest he should have given the weight rather than percentage as many people don't know how heavy an electric car battery is. You can scroll up and see people asking for the weight of the battery from me. Recent Las Vegas Loop is an excellent example for his deception. This was unveiled long after I made the original comment. Meanwhile check out common sense skeptic and also thunderfoot on UA-cam about Musk. You will be convinced how deceptive he is.
@@aaranan.s8419 Cell phones and laptops are not the issue, and they are only getting more efficient. It is electric batteries for vehicles that are going to be the challenge. But also think about if there was money paid for recycling batteries, nobody in their right mind would not recycle a large lithium battery. Most of that could just recirculate and the recycling process will take off. I doubt this will be an issue but regulation making batteries to be reasonably easy to be taken out, as well as a high but realistic minimum required lifespan for batteries and the devices that carry them in the case of small electronics. We are already somewhat there. Phones already can last for over 5 years if you take care of the battery (partly due to reduced power usage and high specific energies of batteries as well as increased cycles) and recycling/trading in are already a thing. I think this lithium issue will be a lot less of a problem than some people make it out to be. If lithium does have difficulty keeping up we will be looking to other technologies in a hurry.
I think the real question is; it’s there enough water to make lithium???? Are we really aiming for a cleaner green energy when we are using tons of gallons of water to produce one simple battery...
Exactly. The extraction in Bolivia, Chile and Argentina is causing water shortages, destroying farmland and polluting water sources with heavy metal by-products.
@3:38 "Lithium is salt in the salad, not that important...it should'nt be called Lithium ion battery". Well, it is called Lithium ion battery because Lithium is what gives electric current! It is the 3rd smallest element (after H, He) with only 1 electron orbiting it which it is most willing to give up that ultimately gives power supply to phones, cars. Electrolyte/cathode/anode can change 100% but Lithium ion CANNOT in a Li-ion battery, even future's Graphene/Silicon batteries use Lithium. He's building Li-ion batteries for EV, either he is downplaying the question using falsity, or dumb to trash years of research which led to Chemistry Nobel in 2019 and use of rechargeable electronics since 1991.
What do you think he’s downplaying? He seems on point to me. I’ve read in the far future lithium ion could be replaced by sodium ion also, for the electrolyte.
He was meaning that from a material standpoint, it is not primarily lithium. It plays a very important function but it is not the thing that really makes the batteries have their cost.
hang on.. OK lithium is there probably easy to mine, as I know being from Cornwall UK. We have a big Tin mining tradition going on for centuries. But what is the cost of getting it out of the ground ? It is massive and it takes a lot of diesel generators to keep it running 24/7 I'm all for saving the planet, but I'm not sure how this will all take place or end. I think it will not be a Star Wars beginning but a grieving existence in the near future for our children. I have a six year old daughter and I'm sure she will see this in her lifetime.
People are adaptable. If we really are destroying the Earth, then the price of certain things may increase if more regulation is put on it and as a result people will buy it less or search for less harmful solutions. If lithium were to become scarce or too damaging, the price would rise and we would either use less lithium in batteries or we would use batteries less in general. We could also adapt to or undo some of the effects of mining on the environment. Given that we can work on solutions, share them, and implement them better than ever before I would not be too afraid of the (near) future.
@@pooyaestakhry but bro we are actually losing lithium eg car crash the entire battery burns up, phones going ablase also burns off lithium and many incidents like that and im shocked by how many phones end up in dumpyards rotting along with the lithium, cobalt etc used to make evs..
perhaps Afghanistan is sitting on untapped the world's biggest deposits of lithium, U.S did not bothered to develop those to bring into production , now china has their eye on them as U.S exit. But lithium is not very common element I believe.
3rd most common element in the universe? No one reacted to that blatant misinformation? Hydrogen is #1, then helium, oxygen, carbon etc, Lithium doesn’t even make the top 10. Even if he meant earth it still doesn’t make the top 10 lmao.
Twisted logic in America. “We need to use LESS energy.” Okay, full electric vehicles, less gasoline being used. Okay, how do we mass produce batteries and how do we power them and make them last a long time? “We use lithium-ion batteries that are rechargeable.” Okay, how do we get the power to CHARGE said batteries? And how do we produce enough lithium to make batteries without impacting the climate? Oh yes, gasoline and oil. Turns out, buying a Tesla doesn’t really make a difference like the hippies and Democrats say it does. Wouldn’t it be better to make more advancements in the technology we have today rather than starting over continuously? Maybe invest in nuclear power if we go down this road of electric cars and other bs? Electricity isn’t free, everything we do and use comes from somewhere and people don’t realize that.
Maybe the question should have been, is there enough Nickel in the world and the cost to the environment of replacing every car with a new electric one and updating the electric system to charge all of these cars as well as the cost of mining and processing it all, a very long question! Lol
It would have to happen gradually. I doubt there is enough simply on hand to do it today, but over time people will get around this issue by changing how the batteries are made, increasing supply, and eventually through recycling. We could be much more efficient and get around many of these issues by having a vast public transportation network.
How is cobalt harvested? Is it safe to extract from the earth? How many children are used to harvest it, assuming it was harvested by children in Congo and other places? How toxic is it to the water and the environment after it is processed-at what costs? I am not convinced that lithium batteries are all what they are cracked up to be. Yes, we use cell phones, laptops, etc., but how many children slaves did it cost to have the luxury of electronic equipment and electric cars? Okay, okay, okay. I’m not sure if anyone is interested, but I’m appalled by the heartbreak that tycoons have caused.
thats kind of a dumb question because of course there is enough lithium were either going to make advances in lithium technology or we can find something similar to it in time being
@Water Wigglier besides from the fact that recycling ewaste is labour intensive and a dirty process. I'm talking about the far future where I believe the demand for those resources will be greater than the earth can supply. People are allready claiming asteroids that contain precious metals while we haven't even developed the technology yet to mine them in a profitable way. And I don't believe the interest you see today for space exploration is purely for the sake of science, the search for life and a nice holiday retreat on Mars. But your right for now there is plenty of it.
Indian mining industry is functioning unscientifically due to which we are loosing huge volumes of rare earth materials, We have not evolved the right kind of technology to identify mine and refine these elements,,,,, Cement and infra Industry crushes and uses huge amount of rocks without knowing that there are rare earth materiala trapped in those rocks Cement Infra industry is the biggest consumer of the nations mineral reserves
We will Go back to horse and carriage real quick. Lithium won't last as long as gasoline and oil production. And future generations will be on that 1400 living lifestyle. Or we could mine other planets but that's a whole lot of planning... Im Just gonna enjoy my attention getter daily 5spd EK B16a 8200rpm civic. Full go kart handling breaks necks at all The car meets. Full engaging driving experience. EV Cars lack character that's why all the car magazine reviews don't care about them.
Great question. I had the same one. Did research and found that a battery creating energy will only charge back itself about 10%. .....there is much more to this answer. Check out and research this for yourself, you’ll see.
It's not enough with current reserves, unless we find new, easy to extract deposits. If an EV battery has 20% lithium, that's 200g pr kg. So if an EV has a 500 kg battery, that's 100kg of lithium. If you take just 10% of world car production, you get ten million cars a year, which will require one million tonnes of lithium a year. Today's production number, is 90 000 tonnes a year. Increasing lithium production by ten times in just a few years is incredibly hard. Not to mention all the other stuff that needs lithium, like phones batteries etc.
Musk's family lineage is that he comes from an old money South African emerald mine owning family. Now Musk owns the electric car manufacturing company that is named Tesla Vehicles. Why did Musk not invest in and/or find lithium menial deposits and begin mining lithium and also to manufacture and own lithium extraction process facilities and then enlieu of purchasing the lithium batteries (that make up his Tesla battery packs) from China, build his own lithium battery factory. He could have corned the industry....but noo, he's into satellites (Starlink) and into surgically implanted computer chip brain implants and a rocket company (SpaceX) that builds relaunch-able rockets that than self land after launch. Has any one of SpaceX's rockets ever done a second trip without having to 1st undergo a complete and thorough overhaul and retro-fit of new parts. You know, have a rocket blast off, land itself, and then without doing anything else to it sauf for refuelling it and doing it again (IE: to blast off and land again with the same rocket as-is). It seems that either musk is not as smart as people claim him to be or that Musk has more money then what he would know what to do with.
@@Vespyr_ There's Lithium in the sea but it's pretty much useless cause it's so dilute. Unless we travel 8 light years away and by some miracle find a planet like ours we will be all out of Lithium.
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It’s, in my opinion, one of Nirvana’s greatest songs. I suggest you give it a listen. Lithium is a light metal, often used in batteries and electronics. There is also a drug called lithium (the Nirvana song is about the drug).
I'm still holding faith in Core Lithium. Position is great being close to Darwin port for transport to Asia. Also having their major shareholders, Sichuan Yahua getting that 5 year deal with Tesla....I'm keen
Elon states that lithium is the third most common element in the universe 0:34. Maybe in his universe. For the rest of us lithium isn't even in the top twenty most abundant.
He's talking about universal not earth, earth does have a lot of lithium but its not like how its made in stars, planets
Lets go to Mars to get some lithium.
If this mineral is in any so called third world country you know that they are going to be exploited.
54% of earths Lithium is in the Lithium Triangle, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina
@@philliptesterman605 Lithium isn’t even in the top 30 of common elements in our galaxy and it’s 25th most common element on this planet
@@rickrozen2341 thats true it just sounds like that commenter is being dumb
The lithium extraction process uses a lot of water-approximately 500,000 gallons per metric ton of lithium. To extract lithium, miners drill a hole in salt flats and pump salty, mineral-rich brine to the surface. ... Lithium extraction harms the soil and causes air contamination. 😂
Harms the salt flat soil damn sounds terrible
@@evanlove3015 Democrats pushing bad ideas? No way.........!
yes I can see what they are going to chose drinking and breathing or eating lithium.
500,00 per metric ton of lithium is crazy
Musk said: lithium is the third most common element in the universe. But according to science, oxygen is the third most common element in the universe. Lithium is not even in the top ten
Lithium is the third most common element in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, which is where most of the matter in our universe comes from. Why lithium is so rare on our planet and in our astronomical observations is an open question widely discussed by physicists.
Musk said that today lithium is the third most common element in the universe, according to science he is wrong
if we had nuclear fusion energy we could have energy and neutron to bombard hydrogen to turn it into lithium... you could also split certain elements to get lithium
I'm surprised that Musk doesn't know such an elementary scientific fact
@@christoforosmeziriadis9135 im pretty sure he knows. But he hopes you don't.
At full production of 800,000 cars/year production, the lithium supplies are estimated to last 17 years. After that, recycling will jack up the costs. It's a monopoly concern, like oil. Prices go up and you're locked in to it for battery replacements. That does not concern Elon Musk. The US taxpayer may may fund regime change in the lithium triangle to meet that 17 year profit margin. Deal with it.
Uh, I'm not cool with regime change. I'd rather the West crumble under it's own material contradictions.
@@eduardoroca1991 That's why I like hydrogen. It's not the most efficient, but it's there for everyone. You just need CCUS fossil fuel and/or renewable electricity from wind/solar/hydrogen, etc.
Recycling processes will likely become wildly more cost efficient.
Perhaps with economies of scale.
That assumes that the identified extractable lithium supply doesn't increase. It has increased 3 times in the last decade. Also, if extracting it from the ocean becomes profitable, it will probably last us as long as we need or until another technology replaces it.
Is there enough cobalt?
Both have been stolen from Serbia
More than enough, but a cobalt free battery is now a reality.
we are not living in Minecraft
@@McC1e what's your point?
No. It’s mined by 40,000 children (35 cents a day pay) and adults ($2. For 24 hours work), in The Congo. Then sold to China who make batteries that are sold to rich Americans to drive EV cars. Isn’t that “green” of them?
I hate when people say Elon Musk is so innovative, WOW, he put batteries in a car, but cannot find a better and more plentiful material then lithium. I guess he done innovating.
Reusable rockets and self-driving cars ?
@@airone3558 reusable rockets were invented by nasa in the 80s
they are currently working on replacing cobalt first
"3rd most plentiful element in the universe" HA. He's not rich because he's smart, he's rich cause dad owns an emerald mine. How is he gonna go to the nearest solar system or nearest planet for that matter and extract lithium?
@@DracoReptilesExposed lithium is not even in the top 10 list lol. Third most common element is oxygen
The question is where the electricity is going to come from to charge batteries. World 86 % primary energy comes from fossil fuels.
wind, solar, geothermal, hydro..
@@michaelg8642 hydro has reached its ultimate potential and already providing 7 % of primary energy and no more dams under construcion due to heavy loss of habitat and humans settlements. Geothermal not available everywhere. Solar and wind looks promising but today only count for less than 3 % and it has to replace remaining 86 % of fossil fuels. It's not that easy as it looks. I don't see much governments are insisting on the amount which is needed. I support nuclear but its non renewable.
@@mandarkokate5613 nuclear is not renewable but there is plenty of nucleus for ages to come :). In the cold war alone USA had 77 000 warheads. Imagine them being used for nuclear power...
@@mandarkokate5613 The best source of clean and reliable energy is nuclear and wood or charcoal powered power plants.Even solar and wind is good but fails many times and solar panels lots of petroleum products for manufacture.
@flying dutchman which number? fossil fuel use?
The one million dollar question that no one wants to ask or answer is:
How does lithium mining solve anything?
Energy needed for them batteries is still mostly produced by burning fossil fuel.
just change to renewable, its easy doable and makes more profit and is happening right now, fossil is no longer the primary resource, it happens quickly because coal is no longer profitable. even with 100% fossil energy it would still be significantly better for the environment, but its going 100% renewable very soon. nothing motivates more than money
And the alternative is what exactly?
Stay on non-renweable energy sources? Forever??
Baka
Biofuels and battery operated machines bulldozers semis all coming soon
@@JohnSmith-pn2vl fossil fuels burn more efficiently in the power plants that power the grid than they do in a car’s engine. So its still better either way
@@huffmancollins614 it's still bad and there is no reason to do it, because any non renewable will eventually run out on top of all the health issues it creates while costing more.
Lithium is only 2% (salt in salad) uh? That's more than 11kg of Li in a 85kWh battery of Model S. Look at how these cooperate companies deceive us.
How much does the whole battery weigh?
@@bahaaaddinbalashoni9123
540 kg for 85kWh
He did not deceive you. He gave the percentage, which is no deception.
@@MegaSnow121
70+ million cars are made every year. On the top of that cellphones, laptops and other electronic items are also being made. We also have planes, boats, ships and many other vechiles. All these needs Li if u are planning to fully electricify.
He didn't address any concern about this. I dont think he is ignorant about this. Hiding the truth for personal gain is also considered deception.
If u simply say 2%, eventhough its true, people wont understand how much it is because percentage is relative. 2% water in a mug is miniscule compared to 2% of water in an ocean. If he was being honest he should have given the weight rather than percentage as many people don't know how heavy an electric car battery is. You can scroll up and see people asking for the weight of the battery from me.
Recent Las Vegas Loop is an excellent example for his deception. This was unveiled long after I made the original comment.
Meanwhile check out common sense skeptic and also thunderfoot on UA-cam about Musk.
You will be convinced how deceptive he is.
@@aaranan.s8419 Cell phones and laptops are not the issue, and they are only getting more efficient. It is electric batteries for vehicles that are going to be the challenge. But also think about if there was money paid for recycling batteries, nobody in their right mind would not recycle a large lithium battery. Most of that could just recirculate and the recycling process will take off. I doubt this will be an issue but regulation making batteries to be reasonably easy to be taken out, as well as a high but realistic minimum required lifespan for batteries and the devices that carry them in the case of small electronics. We are already somewhat there. Phones already can last for over 5 years if you take care of the battery (partly due to reduced power usage and high specific energies of batteries as well as increased cycles) and recycling/trading in are already a thing. I think this lithium issue will be a lot less of a problem than some people make it out to be. If lithium does have difficulty keeping up we will be looking to other technologies in a hurry.
I think the real question is; it’s there enough water to make lithium???? Are we really aiming for a cleaner green energy when we are using tons of gallons of water to produce one simple battery...
why is no one talking about the water issue? This is the issue we sould be most concern about it and I cant find Elon addressing that issue anywhere.
@@withpassionandpurpose5237 you don’t Need a lot of water for the lithium. Comparable to the amount of water for 1/2 jeans.
Exactly. The extraction in Bolivia, Chile and Argentina is causing water shortages, destroying farmland and polluting water sources with heavy metal by-products.
And then destroy that water that is discharged into rivers and streams full of heavy metal compounds
@@sumbajaq4221 oh boy. Your comment has to be the funniest shit I have seen so far.
@3:38 "Lithium is salt in the salad, not that important...it should'nt be called Lithium ion battery". Well, it is called Lithium ion battery because Lithium is what gives electric current! It is the 3rd smallest element (after H, He) with only 1 electron orbiting it which it is most willing to give up that ultimately gives power supply to phones, cars. Electrolyte/cathode/anode can change 100% but Lithium ion CANNOT in a Li-ion battery, even future's Graphene/Silicon batteries use Lithium. He's building Li-ion batteries for EV, either he is downplaying the question using falsity, or dumb to trash years of research which led to Chemistry Nobel in 2019 and use of rechargeable electronics since 1991.
What do you think he’s downplaying? He seems on point to me.
I’ve read in the far future lithium ion could be replaced by sodium ion also, for the electrolyte.
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He was meaning that from a material standpoint, it is not primarily lithium. It plays a very important function but it is not the thing that really makes the batteries have their cost.
hang on.. OK lithium is there probably easy to mine, as I know being from Cornwall UK. We have a big Tin mining tradition going on for centuries. But what is the cost of getting it out of the ground ? It is massive and it takes a lot of diesel generators to keep it running 24/7
I'm all for saving the planet, but I'm not sure how this will all take place or end.
I think it will not be a Star Wars beginning but a grieving existence in the near future for our children. I have a six year old daughter and I'm sure she will see this in her lifetime.
Maybe the emissions from that activity is lower than it would be if you just use combustion engine cars
People are adaptable. If we really are destroying the Earth, then the price of certain things may increase if more regulation is put on it and as a result people will buy it less or search for less harmful solutions. If lithium were to become scarce or too damaging, the price would rise and we would either use less lithium in batteries or we would use batteries less in general. We could also adapt to or undo some of the effects of mining on the environment. Given that we can work on solutions, share them, and implement them better than ever before I would not be too afraid of the (near) future.
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Real question is "is lithium cleaner than oil?"
it's not
@@paulwiliam247 is also non renewable
@@RogueBeatsARG but recycleble but ig ethanol is the future cuz its renewable n carbon neutral.
considering that EVs don't burn lithium and battery manufacturing is becoming more and more efficient. yeah they are.
@@pooyaestakhry but bro we are actually losing lithium eg car crash the entire battery burns up, phones going ablase also burns off lithium and many incidents like that and im shocked by how many phones end up in dumpyards rotting along with the lithium, cobalt etc used to make evs..
perhaps Afghanistan is sitting on untapped the world's biggest deposits of lithium, U.S did not bothered to develop those to bring into production , now china has their eye on them as U.S exit. But lithium is not very common element I believe.
It going to be less costly to get out Lithium fix from Mars!
India now has the second largest lithium reserves
Not quite. 5th largest probably since not all of it can be mined
oh wait this is not Nirvana.....
Let’s trade oil for lithium instead of destroying the climate of earth we should destroy the surface of earth. Elon Musk is really ahead of his time!
3rd most common element in the universe? No one reacted to that blatant misinformation? Hydrogen is #1, then helium, oxygen, carbon etc, Lithium doesn’t even make the top 10. Even if he meant earth it still doesn’t make the top 10 lmao.
This all means, it is as non renewable as petroleum or maybe more. One element they don't mention is Cobalt.
Elon Musk is a modern Rockefeller. He invested in batteries and lithium like Rockefeller in oil, now he wants us to buy his shit.
Twisted logic in America. “We need to use LESS energy.” Okay, full electric vehicles, less gasoline being used. Okay, how do we mass produce batteries and how do we power them and make them last a long time? “We use lithium-ion batteries that are rechargeable.” Okay, how do we get the power to CHARGE said batteries? And how do we produce enough lithium to make batteries without impacting the climate? Oh yes, gasoline and oil.
Turns out, buying a Tesla doesn’t really make a difference like the hippies and Democrats say it does. Wouldn’t it be better to make more advancements in the technology we have today rather than starting over continuously? Maybe invest in nuclear power if we go down this road of electric cars and other bs? Electricity isn’t free, everything we do and use comes from somewhere and people don’t realize that.
Maybe the question should have been, is there enough Nickel in the world and the cost to the environment of replacing every car with a new electric one and updating the electric system to charge all of these cars as well as the cost of mining and processing it all, a very long question! Lol
It would have to happen gradually. I doubt there is enough simply on hand to do it today, but over time people will get around this issue by changing how the batteries are made, increasing supply, and eventually through recycling. We could be much more efficient and get around many of these issues by having a vast public transportation network.
The real question is.....Oh my! THERE lithium on mars, fire up the rockets, Elon!
America....just start a war where Lithium is present...just like it started in Iraq for petroleum
Ladies and Gents get your sickles ready for 2023 🍫🍫🍫 . 😉
elon put JV on the spot 🤣🤣
musk must be smoking some good hash to think Lithium is abundant.
How is cobalt harvested? Is it safe to extract from the earth? How many children are used to harvest it, assuming it was harvested by children in Congo and other places? How toxic is it to the water and the environment after it is processed-at what costs? I am not convinced that lithium batteries are all what they are cracked up to be. Yes, we use cell phones, laptops, etc., but how many children slaves did it cost to have the luxury of electronic equipment and electric cars? Okay, okay, okay. I’m not sure if anyone is interested, but I’m appalled by the heartbreak that tycoons have caused.
thats kind of a dumb question because of course there is enough lithium were either going to make advances in lithium technology or we can find something similar to it in time being
Russia is the leading Nickle exporter !
how did no one notice lithium is not abundant
Save some lithium for me!
We will have to get lithium kobalt and other rare metals from outer space.
Verry expensive and difficult to do off course but in the end necessary.
@Water Wigglier besides from the fact that recycling ewaste is labour intensive and a dirty process. I'm talking about the far future where I believe the demand for those resources will be greater than the earth can supply.
People are allready claiming asteroids that contain precious metals while we haven't even developed the technology yet to mine them in a profitable way. And I don't believe the interest you see today for space exploration is purely for the sake of science, the search for life and a nice holiday retreat on Mars.
But your right for now there is plenty of it.
@@chshet Easily within the century. It will take a lot of automation and energy (in space) but I can see it happening relatively soon.
Indian mining industry is functioning unscientifically due to which we are loosing huge volumes of rare earth materials, We have not evolved the right kind of technology to identify mine and refine these elements,,,,, Cement and infra Industry crushes and uses huge amount of rocks without knowing that there are rare earth materiala trapped in those rocks Cement Infra industry is the biggest consumer of the nations mineral reserves
Not enough lithium at all
We will Go back to horse and carriage real quick. Lithium won't last as long as gasoline and oil production. And future generations will be on that 1400 living lifestyle. Or we could mine other planets but that's a whole lot of planning...
Im Just gonna enjoy my attention getter daily 5spd EK B16a 8200rpm civic. Full go kart handling breaks necks at all The car meets. Full engaging driving experience.
EV Cars lack character that's why all the car magazine reviews don't care about them.
Porsche has invested more than 5b in the development of bio fuel which would be as efficient as an ev.
No EPA has regulations that prevent minining in US for Lithium. China has like 80% of the world lithium.
Why can’t they build a electric car that can run and recharge the batteries like a normal car does now ????
Read up on perpetual motion ,you'll figure it out
Great question. I had the same one. Did research and found that a battery creating energy will only charge back itself about 10%. .....there is much more to this answer. Check out and research this for yourself, you’ll see.
It's not enough with current reserves, unless we find new, easy to extract deposits. If an EV battery has 20% lithium, that's 200g pr kg. So if an EV has a 500 kg battery, that's 100kg of lithium. If you take just 10% of world car production, you get ten million cars a year, which will require one million tonnes of lithium a year. Today's production number, is 90 000 tonnes a year. Increasing lithium production by ten times in just a few years is incredibly hard. Not to mention all the other stuff that needs lithium, like phones batteries etc.
Not enough lithium, Ilon mask stutter on this question 😆🤣
Musk's family lineage is that he comes from an old money South African emerald mine owning family. Now Musk owns the electric car manufacturing company that is named Tesla Vehicles. Why did Musk not invest in and/or find lithium menial deposits and begin mining lithium and also to manufacture and own lithium extraction process facilities and then enlieu of purchasing the lithium batteries (that make up his Tesla battery packs) from China, build his own lithium battery factory. He could have corned the industry....but noo, he's into satellites (Starlink) and into surgically implanted computer chip brain implants and a rocket company (SpaceX) that builds relaunch-able rockets that than self land after launch. Has any one of SpaceX's rockets ever done a second trip without having to 1st undergo a complete and thorough overhaul and retro-fit of new parts. You know, have a rocket blast off, land itself, and then without doing anything else to it sauf for refuelling it and doing it again (IE: to blast off and land again with the same rocket as-is). It seems that either musk is not as smart as people claim him to be or that Musk has more money then what he would know what to do with.
Why can't you ship Lithium batteries through the mail?
Is there Enough H2O is the real Question 🤔
There is enough lithium in bolivia.
Good luck Elon and Tesla.
Lithium is the 25th most abundant element on earth.
And then? Does it replenish itself? Is it found anywhere else in the solar system?
@@Vespyr_ our universe is comprised of 0.0000001 percent of lithium.
@@Vespyr_ the five most common element in our universe our hydrogen, helium,oxygen, neon and nitrogen.
@@senatorarmstrong2100 Thx for the trivia but is it mineable within our reach.
@@Vespyr_ There's Lithium in the sea but it's pretty much useless cause it's so dilute. Unless we travel 8 light years away and by some miracle find a planet like ours we will be all out of Lithium.
They need to go to aluminum or sodium
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Us air forces against time was 30.12 2021 for the heating of litium as show in figures
Need started 1.0? Suggests?
Or started first 3.0? Ive you know nasa station A69 characteristics Solid 3.0
India has It Now
Economical means plan a coup
I am african know of some lithium and nickel deposits. Is it worthwhile pursuing as in mining
So wait for a few more years when it's a lot cheaper.
Im waiting for him to come to Serbia
We gotta put the m2 in the brain if your a good robot
Let's coup indonesia for nickel
Yes there are trilion and quadrilion tons of litium in Afghanistan.
There's no wind power in space.
But the amount of stars are pretty high
@@urbanwarchief yea so? How are you gonna transport the energy to the near by planets?
tons of water to extract it?
Ако си толико паметан.
Направи аутомобил на уранијум?
If it is the lightest metal on the planet one might use it to build lighter ships?
Lithium is one of the worst metals to build a ship out of. It's highly reactive and extremely malleable, both terrible for ships.
Or feathers?
Why not? I'll go pick up some osmium weights, my iron ones really are taking up too much space in my room.
Watch water react with lithium lol not a good ship material
Minecraft irl
But how many peasants lives are needed to produce X number of lithium
HEY ELON - TRY CORNWALL
EVs are not the future. Ethanol is the future. Mark my words.
Steam powered
Elon……. You are amazing
The future is SOLAR!.... SOLAR!! My friend.
Someone argued with me that Elon is just Steve Jobs and knows nothing. I asked him " and how long have you lived in a pineapple under the sea?"
SPONGEBOB SQUARE PANTS
That why someone needs to tell him there an unlimited supply of Lithium on mars. He shoot a space X crew there in a heart beat.
What is lithium
A metal i think
Ask Nirvana
It’s, in my opinion, one of Nirvana’s greatest songs. I suggest you give it a listen.
Lithium is a light metal, often used in batteries and electronics. There is also a drug called lithium (the Nirvana song is about the drug).
Ask kanye west
Indonesia has the most nickel in the world 🔥🔥🔥🔥💕
india is one of the biggest polluter
@@legendkartik2285 It sounds like you misread or are randomly pointing out something that had nothing to do with the comment
What about Nigeria?
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Treba li ponovo pevati?
O Aždajo,što Slovene gutaš?
Шта ли мислиш,што овуда луташ?
De Elone? Prokljuvi nuklearno?
Space x astroid mining babyyyy.......
Oh yeahhhhhhh
By 2045
Universe lie
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lithium is also dirt fucking cheap
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I'm still holding faith in Core Lithium. Position is great being close to Darwin port for transport to Asia. Also having their major shareholders, Sichuan Yahua getting that 5 year deal with Tesla....I'm keen
Im so happy