Ending the dependency on the CCP

[Leongsam]

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[Leongsam]

Tesla has just fired up in Corpus Christi (no, it’s not made up...) the first major lithium refinery in the United States, and what strikes me isn’t the made in USA. It’s that Musk has tossed the standard approach in the trash to rethink the whole process from scratch.

The refinery runs without sulfuric acid. Six steps instead of eight to twelve, a million electric vehicles per year in nominal capacity, 50 GWh in the long run. No toxic sodium sulfate to deal with afterward, just a nearly inert mineral residue they call analcime. On paper it smells like storytelling, except the plant has actually been running since January and the investment has topped a billion dollars.

It’s the industrial answer to fifteen years of Chinese dependency on refining. China controls the majority of the world’s refined lithium, not because it has the deposits, but because it absorbed the environmental externalities that no Western company wanted to shoulder. Tesla proves you can sidestep the problem instead of subsidizing it.

 

[laksaboy]

Tesla has just fired up in Corpus Christi (no, it’s not made up...) the first major lithium refinery in the United States, and what strikes me isn’t the made in USA. It’s that Musk has tossed the standard approach in the trash to rethink the whole process from scratch.

The refinery runs without sulfuric acid. Six steps instead of eight to twelve, a million electric vehicles per year in nominal capacity, 50 GWh in the long run. No toxic sodium sulfate to deal with afterward, just a nearly inert mineral residue they call analcime. On paper it smells like storytelling, except the plant has actually been running since January and the investment has topped a billion dollars.

It’s the industrial answer to fifteen years of Chinese dependency on refining. China controls the majority of the world’s refined lithium, not because it has the deposits, but because it absorbed the environmental externalities that no Western company wanted to shoulder. Tesla proves you can sidestep the problem instead of subsidizing it.

Just make sure to stop Tiong tech students, interns and employees from gaining access to the technology. You saw what happened with robots and EV designs.

 

[tobelightlight]

but because it absorbed the environmental externalities that no Western company wanted to shoulder.

What external environmental does they shoulder.. pollution?

 

[tobelightlight]

Just make sure to stop Tiong tech students, interns and employees from gaining access to the technology. You saw what happened with robots and EV designs.

Once I saw a china employee in a Singapore food court at shopping mall taking photos of the food vendor shops in the food Court she was working in.These photos are useful for designing their food Court back home?

Now didn't see her anymore, guess she resigned.

 

[congo9]

Tiong just copy

 

[laksaboy]

As I've said before, Tiongs should forget about delulu fantasies of leading the world in technology.

Instead, focus on growing more food. For domestic consumption.

When mass starvation hits, there is only so much tree bark to feed the people. And due to plummeting birth rates, there are not too many children for swapping and eating like in the good old days.

易子相食 (易子而食)
https://baike.baidu.com/item/易子相食/8785322
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/易子而食

 

[syed putra]

Lithium is not really a problem as Europe also manufacturing lithium batteries but unable to compete on cost with those from. China.