lance sjogren

Alternative Energy Storage: Lithium, Lead or Both?

I am still reading through this post and I have an open mind on the author's opinion.

However, I would like to know exactly what natural resource needed for Lithium batteries is not readily available in the US?

Western Lithium Corp, and its parent, Western Uranium, has a deposit in the western US of 25 billion pounds of Lithium Carbonate. An EV powered by Lithium batteries is expected to need 50 pounds of raw Lithium Carbonate to provide enough Lithium for the batteries.

That one deposit thus would provide enough Lithium for 500 million cars.

I'm not sure how recyclable Lithium will be, but even if those batteries are throwaway, there is plenty of Lithium for Lithium battery powered automobiles for a long time.

From past discussions I have seen on this issue, I believe that the critical material whose future availability has been debated is specifically the Lithium.

In my view the availability of Lithium is appropriately viewed at the present time as a non issue.