Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
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Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
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Re: Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
#2Lithium is not actually that rare. We are just now spending a lot of effort to find more of it.
Re: Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
#3If Thailand has it, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia probably do too.
Edit: After checking on a map, probably Myanmar/Malaysia.
Re: Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
#4If Thailand has it, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia probably do too. Edit: After checking on a map, probably Myanmar/Malaysia.
As someone from Myanmar, this piques my interest
Re: Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
#5Re: Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
#6Lithium is not actually that rare. We are just now spending a lot of effort to find more of it.
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Re: Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
#7If Thailand has it, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia probably do too. Edit: After checking on a map, probably Myanmar/Malaysia.
As someone from Myanmar, this piques my interest
It's the new oil, so I would be careful. Democracy and camaraderie and all those greater good things tend to come where the cheap resources are.
Re: Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone from Myanmar, this piques my interest
It's the new oil, so I would be careful. Democracy and camaraderie and all those greater good things tend to come where the cheap resources are.
Deposits appear sufficiently distributed to not cause geopolitical conflicts [1]. This is not oil. Lithium is relatively abundant, and a mineral to be reused, not energy to be consumed once through. To keep it conflict free, we must continue to discover reserves and drive down the value of the commodity. No one goes to war over say, salt, in the 21st century (at least not yet!).
Re: Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
#9when valuable resources are scarce, people have an incentive to find and produce more of those resources. As Henry George put it: "Both the jayhawk and the man eat chickens, but the more jayhawks, the fewer chickens, while the more men, the more chickens" [0].
[0] https://www.econlib.org/archives/2009/12/the_gist_of_jul.htm...
Re: Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
#10Does this mean other elements like cobalt are becoming the bigger bottleneck in battery production?
The US found a large lithium reserve in Nevada not long ago; or to be clear a large reserve that they can now more affordably extract. As another commenter said its not that rare, just wasn't cheap to extract before.