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Originally Posted by RedDevil
Lithium gets mined mainly from brine nowadays, and many brine pits are not in use now but would if the price rises. Then it can be mined from granite and many other minerals, or even sea water. There's 230 billion tonnes of lithium in the sea.
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Mining anything like Lithium from sea water will have such a high negative ER/EI so as to be completely the realm of SciFi dreams. Even if we had the raw materials, have you considered the scale of 130 TWh of batteries? Just to store 16 hours of half of the energy we are now using. Please wake up people.