Lithium A Clean Energy Solution with a Dirty Secret

Lithium is essential to saving the world from climate change – but will it destroy the environment in the process Ironically, lithium extraction is just as associated with sharply negative environmental externalities as it is with clean and green energy initiatives. The communities where lithium is extracted are already suffering from dire health and ecological issues stemming from the extraction of the metal, but the lithium industry is just getting started.

Its 2022 lithium report estimates that lithium demand for battery-making alone is expected to increase by a factor of ten over the decade between 2020 and 2030. These batteries will be essential to the global clean energy transition to power electric vehicles as well as to store variable renewable energy produced by solar and wind power. But there are a few problems with the massive growth of lithium demand. First is the aforementioned environmental impact of lithium mining and extraction.

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