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Their results suggest that the Marcellus Shale "has the capacity to provide significant lithium yields for the foreseeable future" – as long as fracking continues, that is.

If scientists can extract even a conservative amount of lithium from fracking wastewater in the state, they calculate it could meet more than 30 percent of the current US demand.

That sounds really promising, but the potential environmental impact of extracting lithium from fracking wastewater is as yet unexplored, and the wastewater only exists if fracking activity continues.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

sorry we gotta go green by continuing to extract natural gas so we can get lithium for batteries

i don't make the rules

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So this means Trump wins the election because the US can't help but do regime change whenever lithium is found.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Biden will win after some random fishermen btfo the cia.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Time to bring freedom to Pennsylvania. Senator Fetterman, your people yearn for liberation!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems like Pennsylvania's final fate is as a massive pit devoid of any resource.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

huh i guess fallout 3 predicted the future.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Incoming barrage of media stories about human rights violations in the autocratic dictatorship of Pennsylvaniastan under the depraved rule of Senator Fettaffi

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

hey maybe somebody will come up with a non-fracking way to get at this stuff.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's fracking or child slaves, sorry I don't make the rules.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Lead based lunchables, nothing more, nothing less.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

China will probably mainstream non lithium batteries right as America starts building this stuff. But don't worry, the US will put 100% tariffs on them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

maybe not if we vote for 99% tariff-hitler.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

annual Li mass yield maximum likely estimate is 1160

For comparison, this is less than 0.5 percent of global 2023 production alone

GlobalData reported that it was expecting lithium production to come in at 170,800 MT in 2023

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

How convenient 🙄