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The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk (rmi.org)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk::The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Batteries take “rare earth metals” like cobalt.

Some Lithium-Ion batteries use Cobalt, but many don't. Lithium-Iron-Phosphate, for example, is a popular variant without any Cobalt. There is a push going on to move to battery chemistries without Cobalt or to reduce the actual amount of Cobalt where it is still required.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lithium production does still take an insane amount of water to produce

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wait until you hear about the oil refining process!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

My car meme groups keep recirculating a shitty gotcha anti-EV screenshot of a post listing out how many tons of rock get processed for the minerals, the gallon-per-hour rate of the mining trucks, generators, transportation, blah blah blah as if petroleum just naturally drips put of weeds and into their gas tanks. But I guess if you dilute into the ocean and atmosphere, it doesn't really count because you can't see it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Or in the case of Canada, to separate oil out of the ground!