ExxonMobil has paid $100 million to lease roughly 120,000 acres in southern Arkansas to extract a mineral increasingly vital to modern technology: lithium.
"With a software death date baked into each model, older versions of these inexpensive computers are set to expire three to six years after their release. Despite having fully functioning hardware, an expired Chromebook will no longer receive the software updates it needs, blocking basic websites and applications from use…
[Pictured] A pile of Chromebooks with expired software sit in a classroom at Montera Middle School in Oakland, Calif"
Exxon Mobil, a new player in the hunt for U.S. lithium, is planning to build one of the world’s largest lithium processing facilities not far from Magnolia, with a capacity to produce 75,000 to 100,000 metric tons of lithium a year, according to people familiar with the matter.
In #Berlin und #Brandenburg fährt der Prignitz-Express jetzt mit Biokraftstoff statt mit Diesel. Eine tolle Sache! Unser Landesvorsitzender war in Neuruppin mit dabei, als das Konzept vorgestellt wurde.
The True Cost Of The Lithium Mining Boom Powering Electric Cars
With demand for electric batteries sky high, mining companies are making their move on the salt flats of the Andes, where over half of the world's known reserves of lithium are stored. But local people are concerned about damage to their scarce water supplies and that they will not benefit from the white gold rush occurring in their own backyard.
Verfügbarkeit von Mineralien und Metallen gefährdet Energiewende
Die begrenzte Verfügbarkeit von Mineralien und Metallen könnte zum Risiko für die Energiewende werden. Die Nachfrage nach vielen kritischen Rohstoffen hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren verdoppelt.
How long will USB-C be the most common & standard connector for consumer electronics? (there can be updates to voltage and protocols, but it must be backwards compatible to what we have now)
"Decarbonizing the world’s economy will require an enormous amount of #minerals like #copper, #lithium, #nickel and #cobalt. In some cases, mining these minerals has disastrous consequences for workers, indigenous communities, and the environment.
But:
A #FossilFuel Economy Requires 535x More Mining Than a #CleanEnergy Economy.
Transitioning to clean energy would reduce the volume and harm of #mining dramatically."
To save our world, I'm sorry, we'll have to destroy yours.
Thank you for sacrificing your family and environment so that our kids can vape and scoot, and we adults can buy 2 ton SUVs and pickups so we can pickup our groceries, 40% of which we're going to throw away.
"The UK is to gain its first lithium mine in Cornwall after a British startup agreed a deal with a French mining company that could supply much of the country’s need for the crucial electric car battery mineral."
Over the past months, the #LakotaLaw team has spent many hours in #Nevada at Peehee Mu'Huh — #ThackerPass — where construction has begun on a mine to exploit the largest known lithium deposit on #TurtleIsland.
Find out more about the Indigenous-led #resistance, the total disregard by both government and mining interests for an historic #massacre site with great biological #diversity and sensitivity, and the police raid on and dismantling of the #OxSam prayer camp.
The bottom line is that large extraction projects — whether they be #FossilFuel industry efforts or #lithium mining — are all equally unacceptable when forced through #IndigenousLands without the free, prior, and informed consent of tribal nations. Please check out our video to better understand this issue from the perspective of the people who live it every day.
Bolivia has signed lithium agreements with Russian state nuclear firm Rosatom and China's Citic Guoan Group, the South American country's government said on Thursday, as it looks to develop its huge but largely untapped resources of the battery metal.
Am besten #Autobahn privatisieren, aufkaufen, aufforsten! Aber bitte je einen Fahrstreifen als #Fahrradschnellweg freihalten.
Generell sollte man Klimaprojekte am besten bei sich "vor der eigenen Haustür" durchführen. Projekte im globalen Süden haben oft einen neokolonialen Touch und gelten nur als "grün", weil niemand genau hinsieht.
Desertec 3.0 – grüner Wasserstoff in kolonialer Tradition
"Die Krisen, mit denen wir uns aktuell konfrontiert sehen, sind die logische Konsequenz eines Systems, das auf Wachstum basiert. Die Politik gibt zwar vor, die Ursachen davon bekämpfen zu wollen, doch tatsächlich verwaltet sie diese bloß und sorgt durch das Beschleunigen von Modernisierungsprozessen in der Wirtschaft dafür, dass gesellschaftliche Umbrüche nicht die Stabilität der bestehenden Machtverhältnisse gefährden. Nichts zeigt dies deutlicher als Maßnahmen, welche zur Abwehr der Klimakatastrophe propagiert werden.
Dabei bleibt nicht nur die Logik des permanenten Wachstums unangetastet, sondern werden auch globale Machtasymmetrien und Abhängigkeiten zwischen der Nord- und Südhalbkugel durch neokoloniale Großprojekte mit grünem Anstrich weiter zementiert und ausgebaut. Beispielhaft dafür ist Desertec 3.0, bei dem Deutschland eine Vorreiterrolle spielt...."
Southern Arkansas may soon be the site of a lithium boom with global ramifications (katv.com)
ExxonMobil has paid $100 million to lease roughly 120,000 acres in southern Arkansas to extract a mineral increasingly vital to modern technology: lithium.
This Arkansas Town Could Become the Epicenter of a U.S. Lithium Boom (www.msn.com)
Exxon Mobil, a new player in the hunt for U.S. lithium, is planning to build one of the world’s largest lithium processing facilities not far from Magnolia, with a capacity to produce 75,000 to 100,000 metric tons of lithium a year, according to people familiar with the matter.
Bolivia taps China, Russia's Rosatom in bid to unlock huge lithium riches (www.reuters.com)
Bolivia has signed lithium agreements with Russian state nuclear firm Rosatom and China's Citic Guoan Group, the South American country's government said on Thursday, as it looks to develop its huge but largely untapped resources of the battery metal.