Timeline for How exactly do the impacts of lithium mining compare to oil extraction over a vehicle's lifetime?
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| Jan 3, 2021 at 20:01 | comment | added | M Juckes | Fair comment (the answer is somewhat longer than I had hoped), I've added some headings. | |
| Jan 3, 2021 at 20:00 | history | edited | M Juckes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 29, 2020 at 17:47 | comment | added | LShaver♦ | I think some headings, and numbers in the conclusions, would make this more readable. You've pulled together a lot of good info but it's not clear how it all relates. | |
| Dec 29, 2020 at 9:15 | comment | added | M Juckes | I've added a discussion of brine and open cast mines .... it becomes quite an essay. It may be instructive to compare against hydrogen cell technology ... but that is another question. | |
| Dec 29, 2020 at 9:13 | history | edited | M Juckes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 29, 2020 at 9:07 | history | edited | M Juckes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 28, 2020 at 23:30 | comment | added | M Juckes | True .. it may be worth trying to get an estimate of the land footprint of the Lithium mine. I think it would need to be compared with the land footprint of the refinery. You make a good point. In other words, the "dirty" part of the Lithium processing is at the mine, while the "dirty" part of the oil processing is at the refinery. | |
| Dec 28, 2020 at 17:53 | comment | added | LShaver♦ | The land comparison is an interesting angle, but my understanding is that with horizontal drilling, oil extraction itself probably requires less land than lithium extraction? I understand that some lithium extraction involves pumping water underground to create a lithium-rich slurry, then pumping it back to the surface for evaporation, with the slurry just being left on the surface. Seems like this would take up a lot more land than an oil rig. | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 22:23 | history | answered | M Juckes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |