@Rapidcreek to TechnologyEnglish • 6 months agoAI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithiumwww.newscientist.comexternal-linkmessage-square155arrow-up1513arrow-down184cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@NotMyOldRedditNamelinkEnglish2•edit-26 months agoIt’s only greater than the supply because the demand for more wasn’t there. There’s so much Lithium out there, it’s not scarce at all. It just means we gotta put resources into looking for good deposits and then extracting it. We might run into a brief shortage in the short term while things scale, or we might not. TBD. If we can find something that works as well and it’s as or more environmentally friendly to obtain, then that’s great too.
It’s only greater than the supply because the demand for more wasn’t there.
There’s so much Lithium out there, it’s not scarce at all. It just means we gotta put resources into looking for good deposits and then extracting it.
We might run into a brief shortage in the short term while things scale, or we might not. TBD.
If we can find something that works as well and it’s as or more environmentally friendly to obtain, then that’s great too.