43 milioni di tonnellate: uno dei più grandi depositi di litio al mondo trovati in Germania. La scoperta ha il potenziale per trasformare il ruolo dell’Europa nella EV e nella catena di approvvigionamento della batteria globale
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/lithium-deposit-found-in-germany
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Cool cool,but are they willing to mine and process it..
Lithium mining is pretty toxic and environmentaly damaging, unless there have been some major improvements i haven’t heard of
Now Greens can campaign on pouring concrete down the access shaft….
…and CDU/SPD cartel will agree because it’s essential for the formation of anti-AfD coalition.
Cool, but can we at least then move to some of the lithium versions of batteries that are less explosive?
So the EU can finally sanction Serbia?
To those wondering about the insanely high number: “*deposits”* are geological estimates; “*reserves*” require proof of economic extractability under current or foreseeable conditions.
They did find massive deposits in Germany, but it’s lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) in deep geothermal brines, which are more dilute and much harder to extract than the continental brine deposits in places like Chile.
LCE can be mined with minimal ecological impact, but startup costs are high and political pushback is strong. I don’t see anyone tapping this deposit anytime soon.
Big if true.
But lithium is not the main issue. We still need high quality graphite and rare earth minerals such as cobalt.
Our best move going forward is likely to improve the recycling of old lithium based batteries.
that’s very good news
i wish them to find oil or gas, that would be ideal
Arent these record breaking discoveries occuring every few months?
There are huge rare earth deposits in Europe and in North America, this is nothing new.
The problem is that extracting them is incredibly destructive to the environment, and there’s simply no ways around that which are currently practical.
Not unless you’re willing to give up all environmental protection.