☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year 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 • 1 year agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squarePikalinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoI love how that’s tagged “sustainable mining” as if mining anything can actually be sustainable.
minus-square@Heliumfart@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink0•edit-21 year 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•1 year 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