☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 6 months agoChinese researchers use solar power to extract lithium from seawaterbatteryindustry.techexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkChinese researchers use solar power to extract lithium from seawaterbatteryindustry.tech☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squarePikalinkfedilinkEnglish0•6 months agoI love how that’s tagged “sustainable mining” as if mining anything can actually be sustainable.
minus-square@Heliumfart@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink0•edit-26 months agoI mean, it’s about as sustainable as you can get on earth I would imagine, there’s a huge amount of lithium in seawater. It would take an insanely long time to deplete the 180000000000 tons of lithium in sea water.
minus-squarePikalinkfedilinkEnglish0•6 months agoyea its just using the word sustain when removing something non-renewable makes me chuckle
I love how that’s tagged “sustainable mining” as if mining anything can actually be sustainable.
I mean, it’s about as sustainable as you can get on earth I would imagine, there’s a huge amount of lithium in seawater. It would take an insanely long time to deplete the 180000000000 tons of lithium in sea water.
yea its just using the word sustain when removing something non-renewable makes me chuckle