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The Skeptics Guide #844 - Sep 11 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Three Things You Should Know About Lithium Sources

Scientists have developed a membrane that could potentially be used to efficiently source lithium from the ocean, which contains five thousand times as much lithium as land. Lithium isn't rare but it's expensive to extract and so if we could tap into this source of eena much greater source o lithium, also get it cheaper, that could have a huge empaa on the electric vehicle industry. The problem is, while that's a lot of lithium, the oceans are huge, and that's extremely dilute.

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