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Lithium isn't quite like gold. It is not rare at all. The news isn't that it is there, the news is that someone has found a place where it is relatively easy to dig, and lots of it.
In only a few years, most batteries will be made without lithium anyway.
Would be hilarious if China figured out efficient electrolysis and powered all their stuff using hydrogen but our huge and inefficient data centers needed all of our fresh water.
Hilarious. ๐
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1004
North sea windmills will be generating hydrogen from wind electricity.
Really depends on the use case. Grid-scale storage? Yeah, there's better chemistries for that. Cars? We're probably going to see a mix of chemistries in the same battery packs to tailor use case. In personal electronics? No, lithium will remain king
More likely that most batteries are made from lithium recycled from old batteries rather than mined lithium.