Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
People concentrate too much on the last one and not nearly enough on the other two. I presume because they require a change in lifestyle people are not willing to do.
People concentrate too much on the last one and not nearly enough on the other two. I presume because they require a change in lifestyle people are not willing to do.
Why not?
Sustainable, effective storage solutions won't be realized with lithium or any other relatively inaccessible, relatively rare material. The combination of sodium-ion or graphene-based stationary storage plus graphene-based supercapacitors (maybe with some nuclear sprinkled in to smooth out the peaks and valleys) is going to be the sustainable way forward.
Sodium is 7th most abundant on Earth, 11th most abundant in the universe.
Carbon is 15th most abundant on Earth, 4th most abundant in the universe.
Lithium is 25th most abundant on Earth, 44th most abundant in the universe.