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Climate-driven water stress could undercut most proposed U.S. lithium mines (techxplore.com)
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"Even if all of the proposed mines become operational, the U.S. does not have enough lithium to meet national demand, regardless of all of the variables that we considered in our analysis," s

The open access article: Future water constraints on United States lithium mining under climate change

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[-] Elting@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago

Excited to see if sodium batteries can reduce the need for lithium. Its three orders of magnitude more common throughout the universe, and especially here on earth.

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