Remember world lithium supply will be depleted in a few years too.
Buy now, sell in 18 months, make a killing

You're jokin?

Not even slightly. I remember googling it at work and it came up in relatively mainstream sources

Existing mines yes, there are still a lot of untapped sites. Trouble is they are either in war zones or increasingly costly to extract from.

That will put a massive cost spike on EV, and they're expensive as it is

Germany is not know for its strong regular winds or solar intensity.

Due to it cutting nuclear and 2021 being cold and not windy the cost of power rose to new record heights. Pic 1

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It was the sixth year in a row with an increase. Electricity in 2021 costs double what it cost 20 years ago. Much of the price increase over the past two decades are the result of the EEG renewable energies feed-in act.

It was a bad year for electricity generated by renewable energies like wind and solar. Pic 2 shows that the share of electricity generated by green energies fell from 46% in 2020 to 42% in 2021. Once again the majority of power was generated by the conventional sources of coal, nuclear and other fossil fuels.

Unfortunately this is not stopping Germany from pressing forward to shut down its last nuclear and coal plants in the years ahead in a bid to go green. Experts are increasingly warning that Europe’s power grid is becoming increasingly unstable and that major blackouts are inevitable.

Just 2 days ago 90,000 homes in Berlin were blacked out for 30 hours due to the German grid running out of power. focus.de/panorama/heizkraftwerk-ausgefallen-90-000-haushalte-waren-ohne-heizung-und-warmes-wasser-nun-meldet-berlin-entwarnung_id_36711712.html

Yup. The more green energy, the more costs, the less reliability.

Paying more for significantly worse Service. Global warming is a fantastic marketing tool

@Leitis @Aether @Bro-Drillard @cirnog @thatbrickster sure, lifestyle change is kind of implied by decentral.

there are options for energy storage which are much more ecologically sensible than li-ion cells like salt water batteries or storing it using compressed air, etc. ad inf. those things only are sensible for decentralized use though.

also wind and solar aren't the only thing. you can use manure very effectively to generate methane in bioreactors, which _also_ fixes the nitrate problem we have now. that is technology from the 80s. what happens currently is that we use patented corn grown with artificial fertilizer.

it isn't that there aren't enough good ideas and working solutions, but that politicians in their infinite wisdom sabotage every solution except their favored (read: those which make them money) ones.