Can't wait to see them fuck this one up.
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Every state is eyeballing if their current drilling infrastructure can reach it.
Hope not. Been low key investing in LAC for awhile.
You've been investing in the LA Clippers?
Wouldn't this influx of lithium dilute your investments?
Never said I was smart.
Sure, go digging around the supervolcano, that can only end well ...
The volcano now is about 400 miles away, in Yellowstone, so there shouldn't be a problem with that. And no, the volcano did not move, the continent did.
I've played so many mining video games just give me an industrialized mega sized 3d printer, couple million dollars and I'll be set for life with that mine untouched.
There's almost nothing humanity could do that would actually impact the world in a way that could even make a dormant supervolcano so much as fart.
Well there goes the US’s chances of being a player in the sodium ion battery race. Our gov won’t support technological advancement while some rich fuck can milk an extant cash cow.
I mean we’ll still need lithium to transportation for its energy:weight properties but still. Hopefully this turns out to be a good thing.
Any bets on whether Musk or an oil company is gonna get the first subsidies to start a mine there?
Sorry for being a downer. I’ve been in a mood this year.
America has bowed out of any actual tech race decades ago when capital decided to go for get-rich-quick schemes by deregulating instead of investing in domestic production. The only thing the US had any kind of edge on was AI and that's just a bubble that's going to get out-inflated by China.
We could have done FINE on a service economy, importing raw materials and textiles and tech from other countries and assembling, packaging and marketing it here. We could have built an entire NATION of white-collar workers managing tech companies like this. The whole right-wing "we have to bring coal mining and steel milling back to the US" was pure, pandering bullshit meant to appeal to the country's midwits who have no idea how the wider world or technology works.
But we're not only not going that direction, we've basically slammed the door on that route. Our principle money-making now comes from investment and finance, and this weird, world's-largest-ponzie-scheme where private equity is just going around gobbling up smaller businesses and putting them out of business to manipulate markets and force market direction. Nothing in the US is real, nothing is built on anything. Or at least that's how it will be. We still export shit like fuel corn and soybeans... somewhat.
You can read history and see how this has repeated over and over when there's an authoritarian/fascist takeover, back to the age of barbarians. They don't want to inherit their conquered nation's complex infrastructure and problems, they want to sell off anything cheap and easy to make a dime on before ditching the place and living somewhere disconnected from the raped land they've left behind. Things like natural resources like oil, coal, easy-to-access minerals and guns and other easy-to-make hardware for war. This is what happened to a lot of other countries and why some places are utter shitholes now.
Anyone who lived through the 90s knows that natural disaster movies were as prolific as super hero movies have been for the last 20 years… and Pierce Brosnan is too old to save us from another volcano
Linda Hamilton was kick-ass in the latest Terminator movie. I bet she can still get shit done.
This is a super hero origin story in the making. Or villain. I'm going with villain.
Yeah, it's not a hero story, no.
Great news for Americans’ mental health
Apparently the lithium is very shallow and so I hope this means that we wouldn't cause an active super volcano. They are worried about changes to the landscape but what about pollution? I guess that depends on where they process the lithium. Also why would anyone think they have claim to the deposit when the government wants it?
This gives me an idea.
- Buy a ton of lithium
- Buy a plot of land with no good use
- Bury a ton of lithium in spots that look like they would be good sample sites
- Wait 5-10 years for nature to erase any previous digging activities
- Find some company to survey the land and then sell the land to someone for a ton of profit
Wasn't that the basic plot of a Gilligan's Island episode (except with oil)?
Is it? I haven't watched all of the Gilligan's island episodes, I don't think I have seen more than a couple.
Which episode was it?
There was one where Mr. Howell gives Gilligan some land, then they hear on the radio there is oil there, Howell takes it back, only to find out it was just a buried tanker. Hilarity ensues. That is all I remember. I don't think I have watched any episodes in about... um, so many years.
There's I think at least two dollops about guys who did this.
so I hope this means that we wouldn’t cause an active super volcano.
There is almost nothing we could do short of apocalyptic nuclear demolition charges in very strategic places that could possibly trigger a supervolcano, and even then I doubt we could do more than create some kind of vent that would reduce the chances of a supervolcano.
The article is really poorly written and has nothing to do with any volcanoes, at least not current ones. Saying it's in an ancient caldera is like saying something was "found in rock that was once beneath the mantle" or some such sloppy, forced sensationalism.
Also why would anyone think they have claim to the deposit when the government wants it?
They want to get bought out by someone else. Government buys land from citizens all the time when they want something bad enough. It's a bit of a gamble though because the government is far more likely to find a "loophole" which lets them take what they want without spending a dime than if you are just starting a tech company and hoping Google or OpenAI will buy you out. But they might be hoping to play the lithium market in some way.
You forgot the step after the government seizing the land... They sell it for pennies to a mega corporation.
And after the pre plays out, the land is abandoned back to the government, is listed as a superfund site so the government is in the hook to clean up the pollution
But they just erect a fence around it.
There is almost nothing we could do short of apocalyptic nuclear demolition charges in very strategic places that could possibly trigger a supervolcano, and even then I doubt we could do more than create some kind of vent that would reduce the chances of a supervolcano.
This is exactly what somebody would say before they anger a volcano god and get Pompei'd
I have been to McDermitt a few times... It's a very interesting place for amateur geologists bc of the abundance of different gemstones.
It is a beautiful desert biome as well.
Not for long. Capitalists about to do more stripping in that caldera than your mom does on Tuesday nights down at the Beaver Barn.
Gonna hafta blow it to get all the lithium out.
So goodbye Yellowstone.
Hey wait a second this is the plot of Project Wingman
Damn, Nvidia could buy 3.
That's not how market cap works.