Image Credit: MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images With his perfect tan and slicked-back hair, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood at a podium at Sacramento’s Cal Expo in late September 2020 and announced an executive order requiring all new passenger vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emissions by 2035. With the global COVID pandemic then […]
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The EU Is Willing to Go to War Over Lithium
The riddle of unhinged EU support for the Zelensky regime in Kyiv is now solved. Anyone inclined can unravel why the Germans, in particular, backstabbed Russia in the Minsk peace boondoggle. Lithium. Energy Monitor’s parent company, GlobalData, recently released a report showing that Europe’s biggest lithium reserves lie in the Donbass region of Russia. The former Ukrainian […]
China’s Lithium Empire and the New Spheres of Sino-American Conflict
For a long time, the world has been gripped by a rivalry between the two major superpowers, the People’s Republic of China and the United States, which is primarily economic in nature but inevitably affects science and technology. Any significant technological advancement becomes a field of Sino-American competition. Lithium-ion batteries (LIB), for example, are now […]
Finland: There Simply isn’t Enough Lithium on Earth to Replace All Batteries Every 10 Years
As evidenced by the significant vote against fracking British gas last Wednesday in the House of Commons, influential elites are either in denial about the horrifying costs and consequences of Net Zero or are busy snatching up the virtually unlimited funds currently being offered for promoting pseudoscience climate scares and investing in impractical green technologies. […]
LITHIUM mining for electric vehicles is incredibly destructive to the environment
LITHIUM mining for electric vehicles is incredibly destructive to the environmentDate: September 22, 2022Author: Nwo Report Posted BY: Wyatt | NwoReport (Natural News) Electric vehicles are promoted as the solution for combating “climate change.” Governments are currently incentivizing the production of electric vehicles, while punishing the fossil fuel industry. However, lithium mining for electric […]
LITHIUM mining for electric vehicles is incredibly destructive to the environment
LITHIUM mining for electric vehicles is incredibly destructive to the environmentDate: September 22, 2022Author: Nwo Report Posted BY: Wyatt | NwoReport (Natural News) Electric vehicles are promoted as the solution for combating “climate change.” Governments are currently incentivizing the production of electric vehicles, while punishing the fossil fuel industry. However, lithium mining for electric […]
LITHIUM mining for electric vehicles is incredibly destructive to the environment and about as far from “green” as you can imagine
(Natural News) Electric vehicles are promoted as the solution for combating “climate change.” Governments are currently incentivizing the production of electric vehicles, while punishing the fossil fuel industry. However, lithium mining for electric vehicles is incredibly destructive to the environment, and is about as far from “green” as one could imagine. Not to mention, most […]
California Approves Lithium Tax Despite Industry’s Warnings
California on Thursday approved a plan to tax the electric vehicle battery metal lithium to generate revenue for environmental remediation projects despite industry concerns that it will harm the sector and delay shipments to automakers. Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, approved the tax as part of a must-pass state budget on Thursday. The state legislature […]
Serbia: Lithium mine opponents block roads in bad weather
Hundreds of people in Serbia spent part of a holiday weekend blocking roads on Saturday to protest plans for lithium mining in the Balkan country. The protests came a day after Orthodox Christians in Serbia and many other countries celebrated Christmas. The demonstrations took place in the capital, Belgrade, and several other locations. Anti-mine activists […]
The Lithium Extraction Tech That Could Take Tesla To $2 Trillion
In Austin, Texas, Elon Musk is building his Tesla Cybertruck plant… And is developing a new technology to supply their huge lithium requirements. Even Samsung is moving production from overseas to Texas Why? American lithium is expected to be in high-demand for the next century… And early investors in the companies set to profit could receive significant returns on […]
The Lithium Tech That May Send The EV Boom Into Overdrive
The electric revolution is the biggest change the auto industry has seen since Ford invented the assembly line in 1913. But an impending supply shortage has put one critical resource in the global spotlight. With the meteoric rise of Tesla, nearly every major automaker has shifted its sights towards producing the next great electric vehicle. […]
Taliban Occupies World’s Largest Lithium Deposits After US Withdrawal From Afghanistan
It’s been more than a decade since we penned “The US “Discovers” Nearly $1 Trillion In Mineral Deposits In Afghanistan” in which we highlighted the colossal untapped mineral deposits that reside in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden’s decision to rapidly and completely withdraw from Afghanistan makes even less strategic sense if readers go back […]
Taliban Secures World’s Largest Lithium Deposits After US Withdrawal From Afghanistan
President Joe Biden’s decision to rapidly and completely withdraw from Afghanistan makes even less strategic sense if readers go back to our 2010 post where we quoted “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: Part 2, the 21st Century paradigm”? Which said, Readers have known for a while Afghanistan was never about the opium trade or […]
Rio Tinto in Serbia: The Jadar Lithium Project
The company has been looking forward to this for some time. For an outfit found wanting in dealing with inhabitants of a land whose culture it eviscerated in a matter of hours in May last year, Rio Tinto could think grandly about another future. The Anglo-Australian mining giant could add its name to a sounder, […]
Lithium, Cobalt, And Rare Earths
Above Photo: Getty Images/Stock Images. The Post-Petroleum Resource Race and What to Make of It. Thanks to its very name — renewable energy — we can picture a time in the not-too-distant future when our need for non-renewable fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal will vanish. Indeed, the Biden administration has announced a breakthrough target of […]
Lithium Mine Kicks Off A New Era Of Western Extraction
Above photo: An existing transmission line passes through the heart of Thacker Pass, following the slope down into the Quinn River Valley below. The Santa Rosa Mountains rise up in the background. Russel Albert Daniels / High Country News. The hastily approved project went forward without comment from the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Tribe. read […]
Activists Occupy Site Of Proposed Lithium Mine In Nevada
By Kollibri Terre Sonnenblum, Counterpunch. January 26, 2021 Above photo: Snow-clad mountain slopes in the Spring Mountains, Nevada, USA – CC BY-SA 3.0. On Friday, January 15th, two activists drove eight hours from Eugene, Oregon, to a remote corner of public land in Nevada, where they pitched a tent in below-freezing temperatures and unfurled a banner […]
“New Cobalt-Free Lithium-Ion Battery Reduces Costs Without Sacrificing Performance”
“New Cobalt-Free Lithium-Ion Battery Reduces Costs Without Sacrificing Performance” July 19th, 2020 Cobalt is the ugliest part of high performance lithium ion batteries, and the most difficult to eliminate. This research out of University of Texas might be good news. Via: UT News: For decades, researchers have looked for ways to eliminate cobalt from the […]