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Say Lithium becomes essentially free because we find so much of it…would that drastically lower battery costs? Is our current supply of lithium limiting production?
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I would assume any positive effects are balanced out by living in Arkansas.
People downvoted you to the point that your comment is grayed out and about to be hidden but there is hardly metric by which Arkansas is not in the bottom ten on a list of states. Infant mortality rate? 3rd most deadly for babies. Poverty rate? 7th poorest. Homicide rate? 7th most dangerous. Obesity rate? 3rd fattest. Practically any map of any measurable statistic where states are colored red for "bad" and green for…
Highest poverty rate?
Lowest literacy rate?
Last in opportunity?
8th worst in public safety?
If you guessed California, you'd be right.
Sweeping generalities and handpicked metrics do not tell an entire story.
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I am not a health researcher or anyting, but a quick googling seems to suggest its possible that it lowers risks of suicide[0] and other affective disorders, which by extension it would lower the rates of issues that can contribute to these issues I'd think. That said, I honestly am unsure. It also is a requisite that it must be in the water in sufficient but low amounts [0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32716281/
It also shrinks your white matter I think, and has other gigantic bad effects. Source: am bipolar and take 600mg daily.
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/08/02/a-chemical-hunger-p...
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I would assume any positive effects are balanced out by living in Arkansas.
People downvoted you to the point that your comment is grayed out and about to be hidden but there is hardly metric by which Arkansas is not in the bottom ten on a list of states. Infant mortality rate? 3rd most deadly for babies. Poverty rate? 7th poorest. Homicide rate? 7th most dangerous. Obesity rate? 3rd fattest. Practically any map of any measurable statistic where states are colored red for "bad" and green for…
Say Lithium becomes essentially free because we find so much of it…would that drastically lower battery costs? Is our current supply of lithium limiting production?
In the US environmental regulations, the cost of producing power, labor costs, would all drive up the price of the end product in a way that makes it totally noncompetitive. That's also why the US and some other countries are investing in other ways to find lithium (among other things) on seabeds, where it's hoped that extraction would be less expensive. Of course the threat to the seabed environment is a concern, which in turn might drive up prices by imposing regulation, etc etc etc.
Say Lithium becomes essentially free because we find so much of it…would that drastically lower battery costs? Is our current supply of lithium limiting production?
The major limiting factor of lithium is not really availability so much as the cost of extraction. China is the leader in this field, not so much because of abundance or stellar technology, but out of a willingness to completely ignore environmental externalities (including those of the power generation involved in the whole process). As a result the price of Chinese lithium is low enough that it would be essentially…
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People downvoted you to the point that your comment is grayed out and about to be hidden but there is hardly metric by which Arkansas is not in the bottom ten on a list of states. Infant mortality rate? 3rd most deadly for babies. Poverty rate? 7th poorest. Homicide rate? 7th most dangerous. Obesity rate? 3rd fattest. Practically any map of any measurable statistic where states are colored red for "bad" and green for…
Here's another list - Highest poverty rate? Lowest literacy rate? Last in opportunity? 8th worst in public safety? If you guessed California, you'd be right. Sweeping generalities and handpicked metrics do not tell an entire story.
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I would assume any positive effects are balanced out by living in Arkansas.
My only experience with Arkansas was waking up to a speeding ticket at 3 in the morning. Who puts out a speed trap at 3 in the fucking morning? But if it’s anything like Oklahoma…
The worst place in the world for this is Italy. Every time I go there they find some esoteric rule to ticket me for. This time in Padova, apparently I drove in an area where only locals are allowed to drive. Bunch of swindlers.