What your phone and electric car batteries are made of

Sky's Ed Conway is in the Salar de Atacama salt flat in Chile, home to more than a quarter of the world’s lithium - which is what goes into your smart phone and electric car batteries #shorts

[HeadCannon]

HOT TAKE!!!!
Carbon is safer than lithium for both humans and the environment.

[leonardplanckiii]

More pollution than 100 years of oil and gas

[dogzebra]

That's a lot of *diesel, water and resources for a "green" battery component. By the time it's shipped, processed, made into a battery shipped again, putting into an electric car and shipped some more, and it's already consumed more energy than it will be produce. Not to mention the cost of disposal and the fact that there's no way to safely dispose of it or make non toxic or less dangerous.

[jmr]

Kind of disheartening to see this after seeing sales of electric bikes go up

[maggiereeves]

It takes 100 years in a landfill for a battery

[snapdragon]

Did he say that water being pumped out is already concentrated to 25% before they even start processing it? Wow.

[lukedavis]

All this work only for a Battery that fails finding special batteries for older devices like Samsung Phones or old apple Tablets is almost impossible without modification

[xelthiavice]

green energy isnt green its just as dirty

[cybertruck]

I have my electric Arcimoto. Thanks guy's.😊

[mikldude]

Yummy 😋😋😋😋 Mmmm a Lithium sandwich ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

[carrie]

All that pollution to make "green" energy, what a joke, not!

[Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate]

It looks like gold.
LET'S WORSHIP IT. Vitzilopuchi, yaquetlaya, yyaconay, ynohuihuihuia: anenicuic, toçiquemitla, yya, ayya, yya y ya uia, queyanoca, oya tonaqui, yyaya, yya, yya.