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Originally Posted by JasonG
Tell ya what Neil, we'll sit down together, I'll consume 2oz of lead if you consume 2oz of lithium and we'll see which is worse.
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Lithium batteries have such a small amount of lithium in them that it's not a reasonable comparison, each Nissan Leaf has about 7 pounds of lithium, the rest of the 600 pound battery pack weight is copper, aluminum, plastic and carbon with a few trace amounts of other things in there and with lithium batteries the environmental impact comes mostly from the copper and aluminum when it's both mined and refined.