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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Anyway as to batteries, I wonder about all the mining and collection of the minerals required to make these things. I wonder about the environmental impact of making batteries and if it’ll be any better really. Maybe less carbon emissions, but perhaps not less environmental impact. The countries that generate these minerals don’t have great track records either. I believe that cobalt, for example, is a huge problem what with something like ~80% of the worlds cobalt coming from blood-diamond-like conditions in west Africa. Required in all of these batteries…..
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We don’t really care about that though for anything else we purchase so why care about cobalt. This type of problem is also relatively easy to solve with regulation when people choose to care. Also price and demand increase will drive exploration for materials.
Lithium for example can be found in brackish water in Alberta.