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« Last post by Right_in_Virginia on Today at 03:42:25 am »Don't poke the bear, Bobby.
Lithium is not produced in third world countries. Australia and Chile produce 76% of the world daily needs and the rest is from Argentina, Bolivia, China and Canada.
The new SS batteries use a very small amount of lithium.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-worlds-largest-lithium-producers/
The ev indsutry changes and improves every year
I did research just before posting that. https://minesafety.wv.gov/historical-statistical-data/production-of-coal-and-coke-1863-2013/
Now, lets examine your site. First this chart:
A typical example of non-rational persuasion. Notice the downward trend, purposed to give visual reinforcement to the claim made. Except that downward trend happened under Obama, not Trump. Once Trump took over, coal jobs stabilized up until Covid when everyone was forced out of work. And notice also that this chart is nationwide, and not specific to West Virginia which was your original claim. So maybe you should give your left wing sites a bit more scrutiny before pushing such nonsensical propaganda.
Under biden
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-thermal-coal-exports-hit-5-year-highs-top-5-billion-2023-2024-02-01/
The point made was that lithium mining is both highly exploitive of third world workers and also environmentally damaging. And solid state batteries do nothing to reduce that.
Some but isn't the lithium a metal anode instead of Gell Lithium -the type that catches fire in regular lithium batteries?
That would be Factorial Energy. They still use lithium in their solid state batteries.
This is why you need to do research from all sources and not just wingnut sites that would find fault even if biden told every family it was a new law to buy an AR-15 and he is going to eliminate all federal IRS taxes.
The largest Ev solid state battery plant in the world was just built in Massachusetts