vtsnowedin wrote:While the little quarter sized lithium batteries in your watch or phone don't get recycled much at present by the time your 75KW battery in your Tesla needs replacement it will surly get recycled and it will probably be against the law not to.
Crystal ball time is it, well the reality is the cost. It costs too much. Look at solar panels, where are they getting recycled on any scale? They have been talking about that for decades too.
No oil or coal, everything powered by renewables, all the ore dug and transported by lithium powered vehicles, and all the world's fleets besides, and now add to that impossible burden recycling all the lipo batteries and solar panels on top of building all the new ones.
This EV transition via lipo is just fodder for the dumbed down masses, no one here should take it seriously. We already see the solution to oil depletion playing out before our eyes, if we choose to open them and look around! See for yourself
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/weekly/crude.php half way down the page:
Crude oil production and imports (million barrels per day)That's the effects of the magic virus.
The all time high for US consumption was 20,531.482 Barrel/Day in 2005. That was before the US mortgage bubble blew up. It's been all downhill since then. Yes some years approached this figure but where was the extra oil going? Consumed by the rabid frac oil plays is part of the story. Burning oil to get oil on a vast scale. But no one ever talks about this waste of resources.
2018:
SRSrocco: The Unbelievable Amount Of Frac Sand Consumed By The U.S. Shale Oil Industry“If we calculate the number of truckloads used to transport this sand to the Permian shale oil wells, it’s truly a staggering figure.” Here’s the details…
by Steve St Angelo of SRSrocco Report
The U.S. Shale Oil Industry utilizes a stunning amount of equipment and consumes a massive amount of materials to produce more than half of the country’s oil production. One of the vital materials used in the production of shale oil is frac sand. The amount of frac sand used in the shale oil business has skyrocketed by more than 10 times since the industry took off in 2007.
According to the data by Rockproducts.com and IHS Markit, frac sand consumption by the U.S. shale oil and gas industry increased from 10 billion pounds a year in 2007 to over 120 billion pounds in 2017. This year, frac sand consumption is forecasted to climb to over 135 billion pounds, with the country’s largest shale field, the Permian, accounting for 37% of the total at 50 billion pounds...
...However, by the end of 2018, over 1.1 million truckloads of frac sand will be used to produce the Permian’s shale oil and gas
And that's just the sand used.
https://www.silverdoctors.com/headlines ... -industry/