⛏ LITHIUM Resources at Scale 🔋

Lithium is a very important element today, especially for battery production. Few countries have access to this resource, in this video we will see the quantities per country represented on a real scale.
Note:
Resource is that amount of a geologic commodity that exists in both discovered and undiscovered deposits-by definition, then, a “best guess.”
Reserves are that subgroup of a resource that have been discovered, have a known size, and can be extracted at a profit.
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[@MetaBallStudios]

Lithium is a very important element today, especially for battery production. Few countries have access to this resource, in this video we will see the quantities per country represented on a real scale. 🔶Resource is that amount of a geologic commodity that exists in both discovered and undiscovered deposits-by definition, then, a “best guess.” 🔷Reserves are that subgroup of a resource that have been discovered, have a known size, and can be extracted at a profit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ El litio es un elemento muy importante hoy en día, especialmente para la producción de baterías. Pocos países tienen acceso a este recurso, en este vídeo veremos las cantidades por país representadas a escala real. 🔶Recurso es la cantidad de una materia prima geológica que existe tanto en yacimientos descubiertos como por descubrir, por definición, pues, una "mejor estimación". 🔷Reservas son el subgrupo de un recurso que se ha descubierto, tiene un tamaño conocido y puede extraerse con beneficio.

[@wallrider4194]

First!

[@AUTTP-LOVES-JACKNJELLIFY]

Second

[@wallrider4194]

Venice is the new city that will have an appearance in meta ball studios.

[@chrisgaming9567]

This seems... awfully specific. Have you thought of doing another ocean-depth-related video, perhaps about sea creatures?

[@MasterBlaster3545]

Should have done the estimate in the worlds sea water.

[@gajofre]

I live in Chile, politicians are getting rich AF controlling the exploitation and it's all behind closed doors.

[@nicolaspietrangelo5573]

They are trying to do the same in Argentina and Bolivia.

[@adolf12345]

The poorer the country, the richer the politicians

[@baxoutthebox5682]

Read about the resource curse

[@tayzonday]

It does not seem like much when you realize every car, truck, train, phone, toothbrush, watch etc. currently or eventually needs this to reduce carbon dependency 😳

[@theben4steelers]

Reduce carbon dependency 🤣 it’ll never happen. This entire thing is a cash grab from the people dumb enough to fall for the climate scare

[@RaccCity55]

What are they going to use when the lithium runs out?

[@WyattOShea]

Switch to a different resource probably. Molten salt batteries are a thing for example but they're not as good as lithium batteries but who knows with decades more R&D we might see other technologies that surpass lithium or are on par with it for energy density.@@RaccCity55

[@Taikamuna]

Chocolate

[@Daviticus042]

Or so sayeth the mainstream media.

[@cgjoel]

How can he drop such big lithium boxes to that city😮😮

[@MetaBallStudios]

Aliens

[@droxx78]

​@@MetaBallStudios🤣🤣🤣

[@eliljeho]

I'm more concerned about the proximity to water.

[@neko_birel]

​@@eliljehomeet the demoman

[@KramerPedro]

I saw a helicopter hovering around 😁

[@joesiu93]

There was a recent lithium deposit discovered in Norway. In July 2023, the Norwegian mining company Northern Minerals announced that it had discovered a large lithium deposit in the Finnmark region of Norway. The deposit is estimated to contain 220 million tonnes of lithium carbonate

[@DCcopter]

So 318 Millon total now?

[@Yonkage-ik5qb]

@@DCcopter Not even close. Lithium carbonate is an ore, meaning the useful stuff is mixed with non-useful stuff. The amount of lithium metal you get from lithium carbonate is about 20%, but that varies depending on the conditions of the deposit.

[@Shoelessjoe78]

There's multiple big finds and it's only going to rise the longer people search. I love these videos but this is already out of date

[@aaronwestley3239]

I'm pretty sure the people of Italy wouldn't be so happy with the numerous blocks of lithium floating around their city 😂

[@Gwelliant]

That's really ironic that this element was one of the first in the Universe, but is so weirdly rare today!

[@buckykattnj]

Well, it's not really so "weirdly"... it's just that nucleosynthesis leaps past Li (and BE, B) from He to C... so some of the Li we have is a leftover of the big bang, where it was produced in trace amounts compared hydrogen. The rest is produced during classic novae, where it is also produces in small amounts compared to He, C, N, O, Ne, Mg, and cosmic ray spallation. It is also easy to break apart and fuse into heavier elements in the heat of stars. That said, it's also not too rare... it's in the top 20 most common elements in the crust... but much of that Li is not easily extracted.

[@Gwelliant]

Yep, I know that =)

[@lazeppelini123]

​@@GwelliantLooks like you don't

[@MarsJenkar]

@@buckykattnj Being a very lightweight alkali metal (same group as sodium and the like), it's no surprise that lithium is so difficult to extract, since if you isolate it, it wants to react to most things it comes into contact with. It's also not that big a surprise that it's in the top 20, given that the processes that form new elements favor lighter elements over heavier ones, especially once you reach atomic numbers 26 and 28 (iron and nickel), since fusing elements beyond that absorbs energy in the fusion process rather than releasing it, and so heavier elements require exotic processes beyond ordinary stellar nucleosynthesis.

[@andredcavalcante]

It os not rare. What occurs there was no economic reasons to mine it, what is change.

[@Juanma_Breda]

Impresionante, podrías hacer eso con cada mineral que se extrae en el mundo.

[@KramerPedro]

Exactamente. Sería interesante, entre otros, los recursos de cobre y plata, que al igual que el litio sufrirán un gran aumento en su demanda, pero que a diferencia del litio ya están siendo extraídos desde hace siglos

[@robertareyes6205]

Hola

[@Juanma_Breda]

@@robertareyes6205 ¿? Me estás ligando?

[@shubham-2026]

Alvaro's quality of production has gone so high in the last few videos! Hard work shows and I love this video.

[@ccdecker]

YAY for the airplane with the Subscribe banner at 1:16! I've missed seeing it. It's quietly my favorite part of a MetaBall video!

[@WDfangirl]

It's super detailed, the graphic is so beautiful! I love it! 😀

[@AthenaSchroedinger]

As always, I learn something new from your videos! Excellent video as always!👍👍

[@dariozeta3587]

Entre Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Perú y Brasil tenes un lindo núcleo de Litio.

[@TheSpearkan]

If you're looking for new comparison ideas I think a good one would be speed comparisons of racing leagues, going from sprints, cycling into F1, you could even add fictional leagues like F-Zero and WipEout if you want to go into the big numbers.

[@darkmatter200]

And the dark matter ship of kirby univers

[@nicholassmith7984]

Nice to see Australia ranking high in one of these things, even if only in regard to something that can be dug up.

[@requiem19]

In regard to production. Lithium is currently produced from hard rock or brine mines. Australia is the world's biggest supplier, with production from hard rock mines. Argentina, Chile and China mainly produce it from salt lakes.

[@kenanhasan9784]

Thanks for information

[@Scottocaster6668]

Do a follow up video on how much lithium is used in certain batteries. Car, phone, watch, weed eaters, cordless drill, Semi truck batteries, computers etc.

[@TsukiNoMilkshake]

Holy shit, thanks for the perspective. Worried argentinian here.

[@kiko7247]

Excellent job. San Marco's square and the surroundings are beautiful!

[@TheCampervanBuilder]

How can this be right when the UK isn't listed yet a quick google search shows a planned mine has resources of over 160M tonnes of ore and plan to extract 20,000t per year?

[@El_Girasol_Fachero]

Excellent video!!!⚡ Greetings from Peru🙌🏻

[@professorx3060]

I just checked and I was already subscribed 😅 It would be travesty if I wasn't, such a good channel

[@reenanyx4405]

gracias por iluminarme y entender por que en mi provincia hay displicencias por el litio (no sabia que había 20MT) soy de catamarca, un saludo y buen video :)

[@blancodeplomo]

Y aca en Argentina pobres. Que casualidad...

[@haydenf1353]

Yayyyy new video!

[@Max_Rebo7]

Could you do a universe size comparison? Would be really cool!

[@wallrider4194]

That would have been cool.

[@Dan-qx5mi]

What? What would our universe be compared to? If there are multiple universes none are visible or measurable other than our own.

[@vectro4284]

@@Dan-qx5miHe literally already has a video about that.

[@tocarules]

The time one is stupefying. You cant unsee it.

[@Max_Rebo7]

​@@Dan-qx5miNo, like the biggest things in our Universe.

[@currykingwurst6393]

Would've loved to see a person's POV on that one.

[@JohnCharb87]

Venice looks great and detailed. So there are tons of "Best Guesses" located around the world.

[@tanyapengusaha817]

Could you do Nickle resource comparison?

[@msn64man1]

It’s a new metaball studios KZbin video whooooooooooo

[@mels9485]

Огромное спасибо за труд !!!

[@gunterstunter]

What do you use for your cities? I’m making a game and want realistic cities. Is it cesium? And is that also what you use in your first person view newest video?

[@johnbaldock6353]

Quality as USUAL!🇬🇧👍👏

[@vicentenorris2288]

Buenisimos tus videos. Podrías hacer un video sobre abundancia de elementos quimicos

[@csabaszep8162]

We all know that Nirvana has the largest lithium stockpile.

[@nanorider426]

1:17 Noooooo! My boat has been crushed! I'm going to sue you MetaBallStudios! 😁🤪

[@maxtherealmtc3421]

Fun Fact: I saw this in a meme once Venice, Italy apparently looks like Patrick needing water

[@MrScreenname]

The only thing that gets me through the day is Lithium

[@albertomartinez8144]

Hope we see the monster size comparison video next.

[@hamidnm1763]

Hello my dear friend I had a question, do you work with Blender software? I had a question about the output in blender? Thank you for your guidance

[@stevenscott2136]

I expected Venice to be less normal-looking. We always hear about the canals instead of streets -- I sort of expected it to be hundreds of buildings poking up out of the water. 😁

[@askgee111]

Great music in this one 🎶

[@MrCykedOut]

I just watched a video on the Donkey Kong song “Aquatic Ambiance” and I swear I’m getting similar vibes with this song.

[@jessetorres8738]

0:39. "You ok, Patrick?" "Finland!"

[@jamestrammell3107]

The only thing that I don't like is it seems like it takes awhile for yall to come out with new videos I don't know if yall do that on purpose or what the deal is you ALWAYS got me bitting my finger nails waiting for other GREAT video love it love it love it once again I will be waiting bitting my nails to watch other damn good video just like the one I just watched thanks for great entertainment and knowledge of what the world and universe has to offer james

[@Saturn_Mapping]

Can you do Ultimate Time Comparison

[@antunitos.1771]

Yesssss!!!!! New video 🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊

[@Geckogold]

I wonder how much lithium is in the world's oceans. There's been discussions that you could extract it from seawater if the demand gets high enough.

[@FrancisAntonio]

Ya voy comprendiendo muchas cosas!.

[@Khaos768]

No! Don't drop lithium in the water!!

[@Tails_YTOriginalLol]

Oye MetaBallStudios, se me hace que eres español ( osea en idioma ) espero que leas este comentario: podrías hacer un vídeo de comparando tamaños de submarinos, como los de subnautica o algunos de la vida real. Por favor si puedes hacerlo, aslo

[@tfrogginhfroggin]

Very good

[@paulrus-keaton439]

Reckon most of the people in some of those countries aren't doing too well.

[@coolguy10060]

You see this number and its just scary how little this actually is

[@sailordolly]

100 million tonnes sounds big until you remember that we have 8 billion humans. We don't even have enough lithium to give a bucket full to each person.

[@eyespy3001]

There’s enough lithium there to last over a century, and that’s not even considering new deposits that will be found

[@brianjbonkowski9636]

Id like to see a comparison to what amount would be needed to replace every combustion motor currently in use on the planet. I suspect 93mt might not even be enough.

[@D-2-the-no]

Not even close.

[@MeMe-zg7gx]

You'd need about 12 billion tonnes just to replace every car. There are about 1.47 billion cars and each takes about 8 kg of lithium.

[@cyph3r76]

@@MeMe-zg7gx Not enough to replace each car once? So even if there was enough you can only have one car.

[@BZAKether]

Primero, que bueno ver otra ciudad que no sea Londres o Nueva York, segundo... Espero que encontremos algo mejor que el litio pronto, porque no creo que eso vaya a durar.

[@mistercreeper3029]

0:38 Ai, meilläkin on sitten jonkun verran lithiumia täälläkin! 😄 Morjesta täältä!

[@KramerPedro]

Liettuaa ei lisätty, koska siinä ei ollut kottikärryn grafiikkaa

[@NexVice]

The irony that Electronics in Argentina are so expensive 🙃

[@lucaskp16]

no tiene nada que ver con esto. aca son caros por los impuestos. las cosas estan el doble que su precio en USD en USA.

[@Law0086]

Silicon would be a cool follow up to this video.

[@jaylewis9876]

If you ever update this it might be interesting to include the recycling centers somehow

[@nesseihtgnay9419]

the US actually have a very large untapped resource of Lithium in the salton sea, when its finally able to be extracted, california would be the Saudi Arabia of Lithium.

[@kryptoniridium]

Irony is Lithium is highly reactive to water and you just put a lot of it in the sea. Venice isn't going to look good for a while. Nice video btw.

[@andrefarfan4372]

Yes new video.

[@igna6550]

As a bolivian we have a lot of lithium in our country ,but depends of the government to explode it and casually our goverment is extremely corrupt so is difficult to produce anything from it.

[@DrSimpleBeauty]

Now compare how many years it would take to break it all down based on the projected number of cars/products manufactured between now and 2050.

[@PandaPandakun]

I'm so happy, coz today I found my friends. They're in my head...

[@edsonluizfilho4173]

Lithium will be obsolete in batery aplication very fast, metalic sodium and other metal alloys and also bio anodes and cathodes is in scientific researches, cheapest, fastest to take charge and safest for use.

[@user-ng4sb5nl2o]

0:47 WTF BOOM

[@rhyswong8976]

And we are still discovering more and hungry for more.

[@TheBritishCoin85034]

That's a lot of Lithium.

[@chrisgaming9567]

This seems... awfully specific. Have you thought of doing another ocean-depth-related video, perhaps about sea creatures?

[@MetaBallStudios]

Yes, I try to make all topics

[@Kitrinos_Real]

Most normal day in venice: Being crushed by giant lithium skyscrapers 💀🙏

[@zulz1g]

If more of these are found, then economically, the price of it should decrease, right? Meaning cheaper price of most things that uses it as their components, right?

[@mr.brasskutt5385]

La pucha, no pensé que hubiera tanto de eso en mi pais, mi 📱agradecido, lastima que la extraccion sea un poquito agresiva para el medio ambiente. de todas formas se agradece el informe.⛏👍

[@KramerPedro]

Sí che, tenemos un montón 😅

[@morrisonmeister]

The worlds switching to Sodium battery's currently.

[@SuperRAPIT]

As Czech person, i waited for my country to show up. And it is really high altrough he have not much land area.

[@natbuchanan]

i had no idea that australia had so much lithium

[@FrappuccinoAlfredo]

How much will this last?

[@maxwellfernandes5303]

Ou sejá já pegamos mais do que tem nas reservas naturais.

[@sstechnicals8863]

oh man now venice owns all the world's lithium

[@mouhmmedadil9782]

What about metal? Pls next video with metal or iron or titanium

[@sm00thgames63]

So what will happen once we run out of lithium? back to steam machines?

[@MrInuhanyou123]

Wasnt there a huge lithium deposit found in America recently?

[@MasterBlaster3545]

Should have done the estimate in the worlds sea water.

[@alij707]

What is the next video about

[@Gabriel15.]

El triángulo del litio. 🇦🇷🤝🇧🇴🤝🇨🇱

[@genericinternetperson]

Well now Italy has it all.

[@technicalkasba9045]

This animation video will help infants to understand quickly

[@stars93486]

I have a question is the planets like moons for the sun?

[@mehallica666]

Yes.

[@anicetoperez9143]

No puede ser mi pais Bolivia destaca en algo por primera vez :v

[@santiagodemarco547]

Argentina principal target of the superpowers.

[@fje00]

do Cobalt

[@alarmclock4093]

you just crushed some of Venice's buildings

[@adityab10]

So much lithium blocks in one place..

[@RightSidedL]

What if you explode it

[@pozejc]

2:47 wow 2 trillion

[@Cholin3947]

What is the difference between resources and reserves?

[@mifiwi3438]

The video description says the following: -Resource is that amount of a geologic commodity that exists in both discovered and undiscovered deposits-by definition, then, a “best guess.” -Reserves are that subgroup of a resource that have been discovered, have a known size, and can be extracted at a profit.

[@MetaBallStudios]

Resource is that amount of a geologic commodity that exists in both discovered and undiscovered deposits-by definition, then, a “best guess.” Reserves are that subgroup of a resource that have been discovered, have a known size, and can be extracted at a profit.

[@davidkosiba624]

It is the next oil

[@Y2Kvids]

Infinitely Recyclable.