A hidden deposit of lithium in a US lake could power 375 million EVs::undefined

  • @kaitco
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    556 months ago

    I’m sure this won’t have a major ecological impact, right? Right…?

      • @TropicalDingdong
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        236 months ago

        It’s got strongly developed post apocalypse vibes. You can pull down just about any street and be like “I should not be here…”

        • @[email protected]
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          66 months ago

          Now I want to visit. I mean, there should be 1000 and 1 reason to visit USA and California in particular, but that’s the first one which really gives a feeling.

          • @[email protected]
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            66 months ago

            You’d also like the 3rd largest city in California, California City. Both are portraits of a generation that could afford to dream big and avoid financial ruin.

            • @RubberElectrons
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              Bakersfield too, if you want to find life hanging on a bit better than some of the inland counties. California has a lot of strange feelings if you take the time to look in the right corners.

              • A desert megacity next to the sea? Los Angeles.
              • Incredibly posh people surrounded by the destitute? Newport beach in orange county.
              • A slow-motion wave of impenetrable fog gently cresting the mountains around it? San Francisco.

              This state has a lot more to it than TV and movies let on. Don’t just drive it, check it out on motorcycle or bicycle too.

      • @kaitco
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        56 months ago

        Oh, that’s just lovely.

    • @[email protected]
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      316 months ago

      The lake was a runoff for the colorado river back when farmers over used water and the leftover was dumped ino that “lake”. The lake in its current state is too saline and dried up to ecologically be stable. The buildup of farm chems over the year cause dust in problems in socal when winds picked it up.

      • @gibmiser
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        266 months ago

        Well, when you put it that way using a part of the country we already ruined to try and help us not ruin any more of it, it sounds like a damn good idea

    • @Gregorech
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      246 months ago

      Consider the lake isn’t supposed be there in the first place…

    • @[email protected]
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      246 months ago

      The lake is the major ecological impact, if you bother to read up on the background of that area.

      • @[email protected]
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        166 months ago

        Fun fact, the beach is made entirely out of barnacles and it smells like someone ate 10 pounds of salmon and then ripped ass straight up your nose. Don’t go in the water, you’ll die!

        • TunaCowboy
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          106 months ago

          I was there about twenty years ago, the banks were made up of rotting marine life (mostly fish) 12 - 18 inches deep.

          • @[email protected]
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            66 months ago

            The barnacles must be a more recent phenomenon, I was there a couple years ago. There were still fish skeletons lying around, but mostly this:

    • @Maggoty
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      26 months ago

      The entire thing is a lesson in the hubris of man. It was created as a major ecological impact of a failed engineering project. It’s being destroyed by irrigation.

    • @Nudding
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      -16 months ago

      No, we have to mine and destroy as much of the world as we can before the collapse, its the human way :)