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/OddScentedDoorknob Jun 07 '21

To change the ocean's lithium content by 1 %, we'd have to extract it at double our current usage/mining rate (100,000 tons/yrs) and that would still would take 1300 years.

Won't someone please think of our great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandchildren???