>>12624714Well, when the two major motivations to replace petroleum are no drilling and no pollution, lithium is a pretty shitty alternative. On top of being an exponentially less efficient energy storage method, its also reliant on heavy strip mining for harvest, and the production as well as the recycling of it dumps heavy metals and toxic compounds into the environment. So lithium is really only swapping one kind of environmental destruction for another.
On the bright side, we can package it all up in a sleek solid state set up, and we can have our catastrophically destructive lithium mines in 3rd world countries so we can much, much more easily market it as a clean alternative to petroleum.
I mean, it will start showing up in your sea food after a few decades of pretending to recycle them by dumping them in china whom then hack them up with blow torches and dump them in the ocean, but hey. Its not oil so it must be clean!
