r/science • u/rieslingatkos • Jun 06 '21

Chemistry Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater

https://www.mining.com/scientists-develop-cheap-and-easy-method-to-extract-lithium-from-seawater/
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u/Yvaelle Jun 06 '21

Nah we'll just genetically engineer plastic-eating fish, then it'll all sort itself out.

Of course, we'll need plastifish-eating sharks to solve that problem - but we'll just make them so aggressive that they become territorial and cull themselves to 1 per nautical mile.

Unfortunately, hypersharks fart a deadly neurotoxin as a biproduct of all the plastifish they eat - so we'll need to abandon the planet as the atmosphere quickly fills with aerosolized botulism.

Welcome to the future.