Far better to rely on Wikipedia than anything Dribble comes up with.
Even after 10 years or so I am still amazed at Dribble's willingness to expose his absolute ignorance of basic science to all and sundry.
You shouldn't killfile dribble. He gives some of the best 'laughs' of all time.
Especially when he claimed to have a science degree...
I rather suspect he meant salt-water. I expect there are significant quantities of Lithium salts in the sea, just as there is Magnesium and Potassium. Whether it is economically extractable....
R.
Indeed. I said richest and cheapest, not most plentiful.
Seawater has billions of tons of uranium in it, and IIRC other things as well, but at concentrations so low as to make it a very expensive item to extract.
Of more concern is the rare earth supply which is also concentrated in China.
Lithium in Dribbles world does come in salt form, its in his medication.
Its also in salt form in batteries.
MM. the words reserves are in billions of tons. So there is enough for at least a billion electric cars.
And of course if we get fusion reactors working, could probably make the stuff ;-)
Bzzt wrong. It's impossible to maintain a static charge across the plates of a capacitor without leading to an inevitable breakdown of the dielectric. The time taken can vary depending on the nature of the dielectric but it does degrade and the capacitor will wear out.
You were still wrong.
That was the science degree of which he was so proud that he refused to identify the class of degree or the university that conferred the degree? Umm and the one for which he couldn't remember the subject, the syllabus, the examination schedule or even a single lecture that he attended?
I suspect he simply didn't understand what he Googled for. Although the richest ores are pegmatites, the majority of available Lithium in thw world is present in salt pans and brines. These salt pans hold Lithium chloride and Potassium chloride in variable ratios tending to be about
40:1 to 100:1 K:Li.The Bolivian reserves mentioned elsewhere in this thread at Salar de Uyuni are possibly underestimated since the true depth of the salt deposits has not yet been reported.
Typical dribble. Claims something - then later shows he knows nothing of the subject other than from adverts or Googling.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Doctor Drivel" saying something like:
Christ, not another battery acronym. How to pronounce this one - 'scibit'?
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) saying something like:
You must f**k off as you are a total plantpot.
This went to snotty uni. That says it all.
You must f**k off as you are a total plantpot.
You must f**k off as you are a total plantpot.
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