U.S. Cut the Surface of the Land in Nevada And What They Found Shocked the World

[@RPSchonherr]

Along with the Lithium we also get Thorium. Thorium is a radio active element and can be seeded to make uranium to run a reactor for power. Currently that thorium is being tossed as waste product of Lithium mining.

[@ariesmarsexpress]

I was on a tour around the country with my daughters when we happened upon Winnemucca in 2014 while headed back from California to Tennessee. This is a very interesting place. If memory serves, it has all the earmarks of a ghost town. There are no old-timey western saloons or anything. It is a fully built modern city in the middle of nowhere, as if aliens popped it into existence. The brand-new streets and roads just begin right out of what looks like a desert. Many of the homes, which are well constructed and still look knew as if people are living in them, have no one living in them. Most of the businesses are the same. The only humans I remember being there had gotten off the interstate to take a break or to fill up with gas. There was only one gas station that was open. The entire experience was eerie. We drove around a bit looking for an open grocery store, but the only thing we found was that one gas station.

[@imlistening1137]

Wow! What an interesting experience!

[@RondaLeistiko]

We stopped in Winniemucca to get a motel around 5 pm no stores or restaurants opened or dinner was the snacks in the car. We really liked the room.

[@keithfrazier2558]

Lithium will be valuable so long as they use it for batteries. Technology is advancing in battery production and other things like solid state and Graphene will more then likely be the future in the next 20 years.

[@Travelbythought]

Like Samsung silver batteries. Lighter, solid, and safer, 9 minute charge time, farther range on vehicles.

[@PeterShipley1]

exactly, look at aluminum prices, went from more valuable than Platinum to near trash....

[@25Soupy]

Okay fine, Graphene is often made from graphite, which is mined from the earth. However, mining graphite and producing graphene from it can have a significant environmental impact. So is it better or worse the lithium mining?

[@cougar02000]

It's all very well ramping up lithium production to produce more EV's, but the question is where does the power come from to charge those EV's, there are not enough power stations as it is to supply the extra power needed for EV charging, power stations are barely meeting the needs of industry and the home consumer as it is.

[@toguro1009]

Power comes from a wall

[@lorettaross2007]

Good morning, Steve! Another day starts with you and a few others that sound just like you! Makes my day!

[@michaelcook6288]

Easily one of my fav channels. Glad I found it.

[@milesirby3132]

0:50 I usually like the videos at the end, but your content is top notch, and I’ll be KO by the end since you’re @ the waTOP of tonight’s “fall asleep playlist”🤭; I’ll like it now and rewatch it in the AM on my commute to work😅

[@farrellware8399]

I think your reports are fantastic! I think your reports should be mandatory in all American schools! Maybe ? It will happen! Probably not. Nothing better for control then keeping people ignorant. But , maybe. Thank you! 😊

[@johnelectric933]

There seems to be stories about both Ford and musk-la have been cornering the future production of a salt for some new battery chemistry that is expected to obsolete lithium in batteries in the next few years. My hope is that they replace lithium before they get these mega consuming lithium mines up and running. There is a ton of parallel research going on for all kinds of replacements. I give lithium a decade before they start to phase it out. In the meantime, lithium is working pretty well for now in spite of it's problems. It is giving the industry experience in building and applying EVs that won't change with a battery type change, and electricity to charge them doesn't change so the work on chargers will not be obsoleted. We don't have to scrap all our work to update it. The horse and buggy just added an engine and removed the horse and became a usable car while the industry fired up to build purpose built cars. The buggy makers were not put out of business at all, they leveraged their experience to make cars. Gas lamps just had electric light sockets and bulbs added and are still in use in many places today unchanged. Ford sells the Electric motor setup from the electric mustang to go straight into former CE cars. This is a worn out fact, but Henry ford wanted to build electric cars, but the batteries just were not up to it yet (took 100 years to get there!). He thought of the gas motor as a temporary fix until they could solve the problem. The barons realized they could make money on supplying gas, not electricity, so they forced us to keep the CE for all this time by hobbling electric research because they had a monopoly on the oil, not batteries or electricity.

[@enihsnuSrenew]

Look up “triboelectric salt” the only problem with that is they use tend to use fluoride and that puts toxins in the air. But theres not enough lithium to power as many ev’s as they say there will be. I dont think people realize how highly concentrated the metals are in ev batteries. “Going green” is just the most attractive way for the rich to assault the earth.

[@mairaineplayzgames2205]

hasnt litium been used for several decades now with lithium bateries??? the super wastefull batteries that people rather throw away and not recycle

[@Rock-Licker]

Yes, and there’s already companies proposing to mine landfills for lithium & other electrically important minerals/metals like gold, platinum, copper.

[@jeffallen4377]

I have read that lithium recycling is on the horizon. Also, sodium batteries are being developed and can offer a cheaper EV battery. Also, flow batteries, heat batteries, gravity batteries, etc. are being developed for electrical power storage for the grid. Then there are smart energy systems for home storage and hourly energy use plans.

[@robertkershaw1177]

The batteries we use and dispose of are Nickle Cadium batteries

[@nancycunningham4225]

Lithium and other rare Earth elements create a huge environmental mess wherever they are mined. That's why US has preferred to let China ruin their own land instead.

[@Rock-Licker]

@@robertkershaw1177 Nah, tons of stuff uses lithium ion batteries. Vape batteries, phone batteries, reusable charger batteries, laptops, smoke detectors, power tools, etc.. Tons of places don’t have weekly recycling programs/companies like they do with trash; tons of electronics, and lithium batteries get tossed everyday.

[@kittty2005]

B.S. we don't have enough energy production to keep that much lithium active, currently right now we would have to triple our coal burning out put to come close to what we need , BUT after that we can quintuple our nuclear out put of electricity .

[@flightrisk6176]

Exactly, people are unaware of this very important fact. For the electric that we are already pulling from the grid, they have built so many more coal plants or in most cases, expanded them.

[@chinchillatwitch7234]

The transition wont be clean, nobody is saying it will be clean. Cant make a omelet without breaking some eggs. Like solar panels are made out of metals, that are dug out and processed in factories, and their stuff releases loads of co2 in the air. Its still better then coal however. We will find a way, I am sure of it. So stop being a negative nancy.

[@im_a_simulation433]

Lithium without Cobalt is useless to fabricate batteries

[@im_a_simulation433]

@@nadl1639 Democratic Republic of Congo Mine production: 170,000 metric tons, that is why that country is a mess also has copper mines and diamantes so yeah

[@RippieFarmer]

LiFePO4 batteries are the new wave of lithium battery tech and does not require cobalt. My Bluetti power bank uses this type. They last longer and have more charge cycles than standard Li ion type.

[@im_a_simulation433]

@@RippieFarmer still, lithium batteries are very difficult to recycle and require huge amounts of water and energy to produce. Emerging alternatives could be cheaper and greener.

[@RippieFarmer]

@im_a_simulation433 they could be, but technology improvements happen in steps of development stages. Salt batteries should eventually become the standard once they figure out the kinks. It's kind of funny, really. The US imports more of its Li Ion batteries from China, a country that is already transitioning to salt batteries in their own newer EVs.

[@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558]

There aren't enough "Pros" to make this doable in my opinion. Every super fund sight was caused by corporate greed, in many ways "We the people" were and are left with the responsibility to clean it up, tolerate it, the aftermath of the total environmental and health related damage. The average pay is $60,000? I'm not impressed! Having housing and transportation to and from the work site sounds too much like migrant working conditions and slave labor where you pay The Man, most of your earnings, you never get ahead. Oh yes, the corporate promises of jobs, environmental friendliness, worker respect, bla, bla, bla... Who amongst us hasn't seen the devastation corporations leave behind after they have stripped the land of their desires...piles or holes full of debris, polluted water sources, endless dust clouds from mining activity, sick and poisoned workers. The corporations always talk good enticements, until they have been approved, then they know nothing about anything. Someone explain to me, why we can't say President Bidens name? Unless there is a permanent OSHA rep, EPA rep and Union on site 24/7 to protect us from them, I'd say NO. If it's Indian land, who cares what was on it or what happened there, or buried there. It's not ours to do as we wish with it! More insult to injury

[@ToddAdams1234]

NAILED IT!!!😤

[@RichardGeresGerbil]

Last time I checked bronze, copper, gold have gone up in price

[@davidyork4898]

I get very suspicious when companies start to quote high average wages they usually mean is the managers get the high wages and the workers get low wges, add them together and you come up with high average wages.

[@mickgatz214]

That 'Pictograph' thingy also displays how much faster technology has advanced... 🤔

[@Michael_Pepin]

I dont believe that electric cars will REALLY be that popular. I've seen headlines talking about people returning the electric vehicles they've already bought.

[@NonyaBuzinezz]

Anywhere outside of commute driving in year round warm cities they are impractical.

[@basillah7650]

Just like a phone playing a game on it in hot weather they heat up fast and stop working they are garbage plus increase energy prices as well only pro they got is you can steal the energy from other people instead of paying for it yourself but hard to do with the charge times.

[@DanielWatson-p2g]

As far as environmental safety, As long as mining is done environmental correct (they reseed the ground with plants, excavate the ground properly, and make sure sediments don't get into waterways) the ecosystem should be fine.

[@dalegereaux1863]

Now all you have to do is figure out how to produce more electricity. We're already having blackouts and brownouts and electric rates are increasing every year.

[@ToddAdams1234]

Yet “my people” around me wonder how I get by living off grid by only pay for the “proper” taxes (land, auto, blah blah blah). I’m doing everything legally and on the books, just without electricity. I charge my phone (computer) with my vehicle, and I heat with wood and “suffer” through the summer in natural shade. Just like when I was a kid almost 5decades back. I love not paying for stuff that I can’t afford and I’ve grown used to it; but I DON’T like the few times in the summer when it’s stupid hot. BUT, I get by being a broke…”Richard”! 😁

[@TaiWanWaf]

I’m honestly flabbergasted at how often you upload with how much detail is always included. Keep it up

[@wakeuppeoplewakethefup.4540]

You can bet he is just reading a prepared script. He is working for someone, with a agenda. And the Ef be eye ballcap on desk is their way of telling people the truth.

[@eman7892]

Hey. Did you see they just found a massive lithiun reserve that covers ne Texas, Louisiana & part of Mississippi..

[@mickgatz214]

Can't wait for the 'Atomic Battery'... 👍 (probably cost a small mortgage though.) 😂

[@duanenavarre7234]

solid state sodium and other types will replace most of the lithium soon.

[@ToddAdams1234]

Problem: “they” (our wonderful “EPA”) has classified Sodium as one of those “dangerous” minerals, but that’s because it wants to…react really strangely upon contact with water. It’s almost like an explosion, sorta.

[@duanenavarre7234]

@@ToddAdams1234 yeah lots of videos of electric cars catching fire after water exposure, no sodium involved. I think the new solid state version of the sodium battery will work fine and does not have the explosive properties of the lithium batteries per the videos I have watched regarding them.

[@ToddAdams1234]

@@duanenavarre7234 Find a chunk of sodium and toss it in so water and stand back about 20’. It’s going to be a relatively mild experience for you and you MIGHT get some water on your person. I’ve seen it happen when my high school chemistry teacher performed such an act to demonstrate how reactive it was. WOWSERS! It’s an amazing thing.

[@stevegem4155]

It's the same as oil we buy up the world's oil and then" it's a miracle" we found some in our own backyard.

[@pauld.b7129]

As a resident of the Great Basin, it would be nice if this newly discovered resource actually benefited the people who live here. I've been through McDermitt many times and the area could use the industry but only if it benefits locals and doesn't just extract the wealth

[@jasonvonhaartman3325]

i heard they starting a mine in cornwall (uk).

[@flightrisk6176]

It only drains the health of the land, which will drain the health of the people. It’s extremely toxic to mine and the water use…it’s all a shit show

[@fios4528]

I would like to see you testing thin tips that arent rubber. Rubber has a ton of friction and that slows the top down. Thats why we use them for tires and why brakes work

[@unluckycharms9017]

There’s a lithium refining plant going in near me, from a company with a great record that definitely hasn’t poisoned thousands with no repercussions. But it’s real clean good energy with no waste, just trust them.

[@generyan2332]

Lithium won't last forever

[@steveshoemaker6347]

Thank you for another fine video....... Old F-4 pilot Shoe🇺🇸

[@jamesgoode9246]

Okay, at 7:45, "this method" of lithium mining requires "specific conditions." That doesn't mean that other methods of mining lithium require the same conditions.

[@PeterShipley1]

this caldera is one of a series that leads across the United States from the coast to Yellowstone. the supplies there might be multiple lithium at each of the volcanic upwellings.

[@basillah7650]

This is the only discovered ones they not found it all in those Countries also stop with the coffee at the start you never drink coffee.

[@johnlindsey-ep6nr]

The Salton Sea they can use solar power to heat up any kind of steam they need they can build giant magnifying glasses just to heat metal steel containers or they could use solar panels and batteries there's so much son in the Salton Sea area that is it's ridiculous to even need thermal power

[@briancc2100]

We are actually at the end of the lithium age

[@tupidcrashtestdummy]

I'm quite sure if the government wants it bad enough they'll take it from whoever owns it. No matter the tribe or any other citizen. They will offer what th5 considered to be a fair price whether you like it or not, then just take it. What will be the first time something like this has happened over the last. Because we are free and Democratic Society LOL

[@prohacker5086]

God bless Amerika

[@jimburris]

The issues with EVs are indicative of the larger problem, that being over consumption of stuff, and the resulting trash.

[@patricksullivan6176]

What is the fate of a used up lithium battery? Is there a re-cycle plan?

[@chrisconklin2981]

Latium is not the only game in town. Great advances are being made with sodium-ion batteries. Western mining has allays been a boom and bust industry, with exceptions. Besides virgin lithium, don't forget about recycling.

[@smokymcpot5917]

It takes five minutes to fill a vehicle up with gas, takes half the day to charge a lithium battery in car. Unless we figure out how to charge them in five minutes the world won't be driving many etc vehicles.

[@basillah7650]

they over heat in warmer weather as well only good in cold countries where they not even need cars mostly because could just walk because the areas so small.

[@joeycad]

Lithium also being extracted at smackiver arkansas from old oil formations full of brine.

[@jamesgoode9246]

At 0:40 in this video: How can something be "between Oregon and Nevada." With those two states touching, nothing can be "between" them.

[@Kazihirom]

They believe there’s a big lithium deposit in Arizona as well

[@michaelflowers6048]

You can't recycle lithium efficiently. Also it is near impossible to dispose of. From all I have read and looked into. If it wasn't for government funding, lithium recycle plants would not make a profit at all

[@jamesgoode9246]

At 4:46, you mention "the growing demand for electric cars." Are we sure that the demand is growing? A recent survey of electric car owners found that the majority of those owners had soured on electric cars and were not planning to purchase another one.

[@CarolStJohn-oz3oc]

Nevada does not border Oregon!!! That’s a big mistake there…

[@amindamok]

The sad reality is the worst possible use of this resource is for cars.

[@jamesgoode9246]

At 5:28, you mention that GM plans to stop selling gas powered cars by 2035. But, didn't GM just announce that it is suspending production of electric vehicles because those vehicles aren't selling well, and GM has a massive inventory of them? Something seems contradictory here.

[@VR00100]

One day just owning a combustion vehicle will be as rare as the Buggati Chiron It's funny how combustion vehicles now actually produce lesser pollution now compared to evs, people forget most evs in the world are charged by coal power either way, don't forget the pollution from extracting it. Last but not least, lithium is explosive, petrol is flammable but diesel isn't even flammable unless pressurised. People are sacrificing more switching to evs

[@AlexPuhl]

This is such a dishonest comment. lets look at the big picture along with some facts you conveniently left out. We're doing this because of climate change, overall electrical vehicles are less polluting in the long run. The power grid is becoming greener and greener which makes electric vehicles greener, that is just not an option for gas powered vehicles. Some people also are also already powering their electric vehicles completely with green energy via roof solar panels. Delivering electricity is way cheaper and easier than transporting fuel, most of the system is already in place, just need more EV charging stations at the final point of delivery. Lastly, gas powered vehicles smell like shit, especially the older ones and they're loud. Almost no advancements in tech have 0 drawbacks, but overall electrical vehicles are better. We're sacrificing much less switching to EVs and almost all credible experts on this topic would agree w/ what I'm saying here.

[@VR00100]

@AlexPuhl buddy good luck charging your EV using solar panel for the entire next year My comment isn't dishonest, you are for calling me dishonest when I wasn't, green energy isn't efficient, THAT'S LITERALLY WHY WE USED COAL AND NUCLEAR ENERGY. It totally wasn't like Dynamos weren't there ages ago and the energy they produced wasn't enough Enjoy driving your ticking time bomb, you really don't realise just how dangerous of a setup lithium batteries for cars are, on top of that the extraction is far worse than getting oil Does even going green matter, our cars have euro 6 emissions norms, etc. meanwhile there are people who spends gallons per kilometre in their jets and no one talks about that 😂🤡

[@SithAssassin]

LAC last 12 months is down 52.68% with a loss of $14million. But hay shares are at $3.16 right now so might recoup if it takes off

[@ThomwoththeWeather]

mass transit, better tech, and then we will see something really big happen... love the vids! epic channel

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

So the waste land doesn't go to...well, waste!

[@Goz101-b9b]

I love the part at 20:59

[@sawdustcrypto3987]

I like 17:30 - I hope this lithium company's technology is more up-to-date in other departments 😆

[@thomgri]

meaning the military is building dreadnoughts

[@pitsmcgoo]

Salto Sea has More lithium and better conditions for refining.

[@nobodynoonenowhere5609]

The 2nd Industrial Revolution??😮😮

[@gandalfgimlilegolas6663]

They found lithium deposits in Arkansas also.

[@christinam3294]

bro i hope you bought in to the stock because i did thanks for the stock tip.

[@cyrilio]

Does it really need that much diesel to operate? Are their no alternatives?

[@carlstephens1532]

All mining of any kind consumes fuel

[@brucewrandol]

How can they predict how much lithium each site will/can produce?

[@Llama_vet]

Math

[@brucewrandol]

@@Llama_vet thanks. You must be a very helpful person.

[@laurabailey2092]

Ummm, why do you sound like Redwheel? I just found your channel and appreciate the amount of research you do.

[@unclebuzz6913]

I own land in Elko County,Near Montello...Is there any lithium there ?

[@Flowmaster925]

working with all those chemicals cant be good for long term health.

[@2coryman]

Refill the mines excavated so that nature rebounds

[@johnk8825]

Uhhh, where will all the electricity come from to charge all these batteries ? And where will they put all of the exhausted batteries ? China already has vast expanses of abandoned vehicles with exhausted batteries, as no one can afford to replace them.

[@WeAre1Legion]

IIRC we are building more nuclear power plants in the U.S so the power would come from there, to put the batteries I'd imagine trying to recycle them or repurpose them

[@GregoryNeff-l1n]

The electricity will come from solar cells built in the desert provided we don’t make them too expensive with tariffs intended to help stock holders in our non competitive solar panel industry.

[@zwadelowman7841]

Hey Steve do you have any idea about these UFO and uap

[@grantsturgeon7881]

there are liquid biofuels for combustion engines, and trying to make different lengths for different sized engines

[@elainehunt5339]

“could be there”

[@edd868]

So when us Beverly Hillbillies being remade with lithium mines instead of oil?

[@xylairsanchez3853]

A video on how and when Israel became a state please??? I love your videos because the are factual and not opinión pieces. 😊

[@stanmitchell3375]

Sodium or aluminum could replace lithium

[@WeAre1Legion]

True but I don't think they're as efficient as lithium, I'd have to do actual research to check but we've been using both for so long I'd think people would have figured out if one of them was better than lithium for energy

[@josephvalcarce3124]

What's the other 40% used for?

[@elijahbates9643]

Why is this guy so obsessed about remaining anonymous but yet I've never been in the comments of any of your videos and seen anybody stop to ask who you were... Keep doin what you do. Nobody cares if you remain faceless.

[@ToddAdams1234]

If he “screens” his messages personally or with a crew, he MIGHT just be ejecting those “comments”. 🤔☹️

[@OSWALD569]

But there are new battery chemistries that do no longer require lithium.

[@PeterShipley1]

wasn't lithium also found in coal ash?

[@Brunzy1970]

Cant it be piped to a more suitable location then processed

[@jamesgoode9246]

In minute 16, where did you get your pronunciation of sulfuric acid ??? The second syllable should sound like "fury," not like "furry."

[@eugenedarvell8470]

Apart from the cable the cat six ethernet cable and connectors, I have all the materials

[@vontar1]

we are still in the stream age. :D

[@florforever1]

😢😮Hmm? 🤔What will the world do?

[@MarypStrube]

Iron and miry clay equals lithium????

[@lloydcady7231]

What about California the salton sea how big is that deposit?

[@DanielWatson-p2g]

How much lithium does Canada have?

[@KC-vk8wl]

Bolivia's reserves?

[@MarypStrube]

All this pollution usa will become a third world country...😢😢

[@alanchurchill1540]

Wait till sodium batteries start appearing or something else we haven't heard about. Btw car sales aren't as great as you think. Change in government's away from net zero could see a return to ice cars running on greener fuel . There is a lot to play for.

[@FatChanceTheCouchDog]

Lithium is already obsolete tech.

[@koobski]

Invest now!

[@MoteOfDust430]

I did remember

[@revzone3544]

Let me guess..they found more casino's?

[@jamesscott9081]

How come no more cartoon Steve?!

[@Jarlulfric4202]

I thought murican only care about oil, but now metal too?!

[@billybobsowbreath1774]

This mine isn't very far from where I live. It will be interesting to see it in action. Far as EV's... you couldn't pay me enough to own one of those pieces of JUNK. I'll keep my dino-truck thanks. It can take me anywhere I need to go without sitting for hours and wasting my time.

[@MeCrazy516]

wow the west is only .... what 15 years behind china with EV cars now....2035? 2040?

[@gabriellashimone6546]

So, what about all those bipolar folks?

[@mblake0420]

I wony buy an electric vehicle so i guess theybwill collapse bc everyone around me doesnt want one either

[@robertoakley9609]

rThis Mayoak UP Stanloth

[@robertoakley9609]

k up Stanley Meyer and his research on HHO/Plasma gensets About L Gold

[@Arctix-rv6it]

not first

[@GeorgieStory]

How the hell is a rock the most valuable plot of land in America? 😭

[@moe_flow5794]

They make batteries, phones, laptops, electric cars, and much more. Plus, the chips used in most technologies.

[@stark5679]

Keep a look out when " un- natural " weather happens in those areas and forces people to abandon the land

[@stark5679]

Land grabs. Watch what the government does

[@lothwitchviewing3776]

Did u watch the video?

[@jamess.7214]

NEVER going to buy an electric vehicle! EVER!