White Gold
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wrote on 5 Jan 2023, 14:56 last edited by
Zimbabwe says "No" to more exports.
https://www.africanews.com/2022/12/29/zimbabwe-bans-all-lithium-exports/
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wrote on 5 Jan 2023, 15:01 last edited by
Can someone help me find my shocked face?
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wrote on 5 Jan 2023, 15:16 last edited by
Who will be the first to build a battery factory in the country?
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wrote on 5 Jan 2023, 15:17 last edited by
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wrote on 5 Jan 2023, 15:39 last edited by Mik 1 May 2023, 15:40
We'll have to wait and Xi.
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wrote on 5 Jan 2023, 15:41 last edited by
On the other hand, what else do they have to purchase in order to build said batteries?
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wrote on 5 Jan 2023, 16:17 last edited by
Cobalt, phosphorus, manganese, graphite and a few other things.
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wrote on 5 Jan 2023, 17:03 last edited by
Also, a big factory thing.
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wrote on 5 Jan 2023, 17:33 last edited by Mik 1 May 2023, 17:35
@Jolly said in White Gold:
Cobalt, phosphorus, manganese, graphite and a few other things.
And what if countries also decide not to sell those things to Zimbabwe? Zimbabwe will be SOL.
What's going to happen here is other countries will develop their own resources and their lithium will not be worth nearly so much. We have lithium, but it's apparrently a nasty process.
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wrote on 5 Jan 2023, 17:41 last edited by
Apparently, Zimbabwe is not a big whoop in the lithium world.
https://e-vehicleinfo.com/global/top-8-lithium-reserves-countries-in-the-world/
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wrote on 5 Jan 2023, 23:43 last edited by
They say they can supply 20% of the world's needs.
What they didn't say, was that they don't mind tearing the country up to mine it...
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wrote on 7 Jan 2023, 18:17 last edited by
Battery technology is evolving as fast as any other technology.
Would not surprise me if in a few years, better batteries are being made without lithium.
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wrote on 7 Jan 2023, 21:35 last edited by
There are only so many things you can do with an electron...
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wrote on 7 Jan 2023, 21:44 last edited by
@Jolly said in White Gold:
There are only so many things you can do with an electron...
Why so negative?
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wrote on 7 Jan 2023, 21:48 last edited by
@Jolly said in White Gold:
There are only so many things you can do with an electron...
I rather suspect we've got quite a way to go before we exhaust the possibilities. The Lithium Ion battery was only prototyped in 1985.
