Europe's ambition to be a world player in decarbonized transportation depends on sourcing lithium abroad, but it has run into a trio of obstacles. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/23/europe-lithium-china-cash/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #europe #china #batteries #lithium #electricvehicles #panasonic #samsung #catl #byd
So many questionable choices, but the size and placement of the battery is the worst.
Imagine catching 100lbs of lifepo directly in your lower spine in a 30mph head-on. That poor rear rack...
The big reuse: 25 MWh of ex-car batteries go on the grid in California
"Batteries with performance too low for driving can still store a lot of charge."
Ukraine to announce bidding for lithium extraction in Kirovohrad region (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-economy/4005806-ukraine-to-announce-bidding-for-lithium-extraction-in-kirovohrad-region.html #Ukraine #Mastodon #lithium #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
From @sciencefocus: The electric vehicle (EV) revolution may be heading for a supply-chain snag. Why? The rising demand for lithium. Here’s more:
Australia has the cheapest solar & wind—but still high power bills. Why? Gas peakers set prices, markets reward inflexibility, & we underuse storage. Smart grids & V2G could be our game-changer. Let’s stop blaming renewables & fix the system. 
#Renewables #Solar #Wind #Lithium #V2G #EVs #SWB #BESS
Why Isn’t Renewable Energy Mak...
https://www.europesays.com/2138247/ Serbian farmers vow to oppose Rio Tinto lithium project even after EU labels it strategic #Europe #EuropeanCommission #Lithium #LithiumCarbonate #MineralResources #RioTinto #Serbia #ZlatkoKokanovic
@thijs_lucas @StephanMatthiesen @lobidu Inwiefern das die Tonnen an #umweltschädlich gewonnenen und unter #UnfairTrade gehandelten Rohstoffe wie #Kobalt und #Lithium rechtfertigt ist IMHO fraglich.
Das sollte aber eigentlich allen einleuchten!
https://troet.cafe/@StephanMatthiesen/114620896616551997
Evanescence’s “Lithium” obliquely makes a false, ignorant, irresponsible claim based on nothing more than a pseudo-figure of speech.
#Lithium #Evanescence #Rock #Song #Lyrics #Analysis
https://songreading.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/lithium/
Chinese companies' incentive is simple: "Don't lose market share, and future markets are included."
If mining for #lithium is going to add to climate warming and that with the exorbitant expense of smart phones especially for the bottom 50%, and google spewing fake information, and on top of it all it isn’t considered a necessity that is deductible, we should set strict regulations or vote for our government to not help finance it with tax revenue. Moreover legislators should be restricted from stock investments.
#EndCitizenUnited
On the other hand:
“A Fossil Fuel Economy Requires 535x More Mining Than a Clean Energy Economy”
https://www.distilled.earth/p/a-fossil-fuel-economy-requires-535x
A dilemma.. “for Europe, as the continent races to start extracting and producing minerals like lithium that are critical to the clean energy transition, instead of relying on imports from China and other emerging economies….
communities where the resources are located question whether they will benefit from their exploitation.”
Trump is going to threaten to annex Oregon and make it the 51 state when he reads this headline. https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/09/2210247/lithium-deposit-valued-at-15-trillion-discovered-in-oregon?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
→ Course dévastatrice aux minerais d’avenir
https://revue21.fr/article/mines-course-devastatrice/
« De l’extraction du lithium chilien à celle du nickel d’Indonésie en passant par le cobalt congolais, le photographe Davide Monteleone explore les sites dans lesquels les industries de la tech viennent puiser les ressources indispensables à la transition énergétique. »
Watched a hybrid doco "A Savana e a Montanha", a Portuguese movie abt how villagers in Covas do Barroso, a northern Portuguese community, unite 2stop a British company,Savanna Resources, from exploiting lithium in the region which was deemed a World Agric Heritage by the Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN in 2018. Very good storytelling with the villagers reenacting parts of the story and also funny.
#SodiumBatteries offer an alternative to tricky #lithium
Lithium is relatively scarce and mostly refined in China. Sodium is neither
Oct 26th 2023
Excerpt: "Fortunately, lithium is not the only game in town. As we report this week, a clutch of firms are making batteries based on sodium, lithium’s elemental cousin. Since sodium’s chemical properties are very similar to those of lithium, it too makes for good batteries. And sodium, which is found in the salt in seawater, is thousands of times more abundant on Earth than lithium and cheaper to get at. Most of the companies using sodium to make batteries today are also Chinese. But pursuing the technology in the West might be a surer route to energy security than relying heavily on lithium.
"Besides its abundance, sodium has other advantages. The best lithium batteries use #cobalt and 3nickel in their electrodes. Nickel, like lithium, is in short supply. #Mining it on land is #environmentally destructive. Proposals to grab it from the #seabed instead have caused rows. A good deal of the world’s cobalt, meanwhile, is extracted from small mines in the Democratic Republic of #Congo, where child labour is common and working conditions are dire. Sodium batteries, by contrast, can use electrodes built from iron and manganese, which are plentiful and uncontroversial. Since the chemical components are cheap, a scaled-up industry should be able to produce batteries that cost less than their lithium counterparts.
"Sodium is not a perfect replacement for lithium. It is heavier, meaning sodium batteries will weigh more than lithium ones of an equivalent capacity. That is likely to rule them out in some cases where lightness is paramount. But for other applications, such as grid storage or home batteries, weight is irrelevant. Several Chinese carmakers are even beginning to put sodium batteries in electric vehicles.
"Perhaps the biggest disadvantage of sodium batteries is their late start. #LithiumIon batteries were first commercialised in the 1990s and have benefited from decades of investment. But the rest of the world is behind China on both fronts anyway. America and the European Union have announced enormous programmes of green industrial subsidies. If they are determined to bankroll batteries, some of the pot should go to sodium."
Read more:
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/10/26/sodium-batteries-offer-an-alternative-to-tricky-lithium
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/7x6JX#
https://www.europesays.com/2041233/ Intilion to provide 81MWh BESS for Germany project #EnergyStorageEurope #germany #intilion #lithium-ion #RenewablesIntegration #SystemIntegrator #SystemIntegrators
Bonjour les fédeprintempsiens,
#Disque du jour, bonjour !
#BertrandBetsch • La soupe à la grimace (#Lithium, 1997)
Que voulez-vous, je suis amoureux de la musique de Bertrand Betsch depuis ce premier album, un acte découvert grâce au patron de son label. Depuis, bon an, mal an, j'achète et écoute ses disques avec une ferveur toute religieuse. Pas de grands mots sur sa musique, elle fait de Bertrand un grand musicien, et puis les textes, les TEXTES, je ne sais pas moi, c'est de la poésie, souvent tendre, parfois trash, résolument moderne. Bref, jetez une oreille attentive.
Bisous
