Exxon will mine lithium for electric vehicle batteries in Arkansas::With EV incentives tied to domestic battery content, US lithium mines are needed.
We should stop them from doing that. Exxon wanted to go so hard on making fuel and destroy the world, but now they want to start mining lithium? Nope. Stop them. They can’t do that. They don’t get to turn around and start being environmentally clean after what they’ve done. They still have yet to pay for all the damages they have caused
Lithium mining isn’t exactly “environmentally clean”. At 500,000 gallons of water per metric ton of lithium mined and ~10kg of lithium per car battery, that makes each electric car take up at least 5,000 gallons of water just from the extraction process of the lithium, to say nothing of refining, transportation, and other components that also use lithium.
Aaaand that’s all assuming there’s no localized pollution from the extraction process!
Electric cars are not here to save us.
read about the lithium separation process, water evaporates into the environment rather than being used from it
