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USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

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Re: USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

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Post by stevage »

janice1999 wrote: post #13
chromatin wrote: post #2

Serious question: Given the mood alerting properties of lithium, are people living here chiller than would be expected (controlling for instance for poverty / SES) ?

Potentially. See "Lithium in drinking water linked with lower suicide rates" [1]. [1] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/lithium-in-drinking-water-linked-...

Wow, that is super interesting.

I think I heard that long term usage of lithium has nasty side effects like damaging kidneys, but perhaps not at these very low concentrations.

Re: USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

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Post by richwater »

flenserboy wrote: post #50

Interesting, & not necessarily in a good way. This method could well presage unprecedented numbers of attempts at eminent domain takings or other means of forcing people out of their properties.

National security (by identifying and processing rare earth metals and materials domestically) is vastly more important to society than a few dozen homes somewhere.

Re: USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

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Post by silisili »

EB66 wrote: post #48
silisili wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You are citing the US News "best states" ranking. In that ranking, California is ranked #37 overall and Arkansas is ranked #47 overall. Even your own hand picked data source supports the OP...

37th/50 isn't good. But people never clamor on about how awful California is every time it's mentioned(well, rarely). This same ranking puts states like South Dakota and Indiana ahead, which I'm sure many would object to all the same.

This is the second day in a row I've watched threads about Arkansas of all places devolve into these nasty generalities(yesterday's was about WalMart and Bentonville). I don't live in Arkansas or anything, but I think we as a community can do better than devolve into it over and over, unless the topic at hand was the problems of a state.

Re: USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #53

Great, now ask the AI to engineer a fungal genome that'll help us purify it more easily: Frack in the substrate and spores, harvest fruit bodies on the surface, profit.

This entire problem will solved without offering human employment in a place that would probably welcome it at this pace.

Re: USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

idontwantthis wrote: post #40

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?

Is sand essentially free because we have beaches and deserts full of it? It can be used to make concrete, a valuable material? (Don't forget the shipping, storage, and refining costs)

Re: USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

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Post by ifdefdebug »

richwater wrote: post #52
flenserboy wrote: post #50

Interesting, & not necessarily in a good way. This method could well presage unprecedented numbers of attempts at eminent domain takings or other means of forcing people out of their properties.

National security (by identifying and processing rare earth metals and materials domestically) is vastly more important to society than a few dozen homes somewhere.

sure. just make sure to pay them what their land is worth... with the lithium below.

Re: USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

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Post by jumploops »

ifdefdebug wrote: post #58
richwater wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

National security (by identifying and processing rare earth metals and materials domestically) is vastly more important to society than a few dozen homes somewhere.

sure. just make sure to pay them what their land is worth... with the lithium below.

Do most residential land parcels include mining rights?

Re: USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

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Post by ct0 »

ifdefdebug wrote: post #58
richwater wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

National security (by identifying and processing rare earth metals and materials domestically) is vastly more important to society than a few dozen homes somewhere.

sure. just make sure to pay them what their land is worth... with the lithium below.

Is there case law on how deep land goes? I could imagine that there will be in the near future.
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