In the attached video, an experiment is carried out with a small 1.5V lithium battery cell. Take a good look at the state of the container that contained the water!
In an electric car, all the batteries represent 400 volts direct current and weigh a minimum of 180 kg. (396 Lbs) It’s in English but the images are enough to explain the phenomenon. Lithium mixed with water explodes and releases enormous intensity of heat. This is why firefighters can’t put out a fire on an electric car! Some public garages do not allow EV to park.
People who own electric cars, are you aware that you are sitting on a potential bomb? I’m sure you will argue that your car batteries are safely encased in a something that is water proof. However, the propensity for unexplained electric car fires implies that if the battery case is leaky and water penetrates the lithium inside, you may have a giant, uncontrollable fire under your ass.
Today, I read a piece of junk mail which was eight pages long and printed on shiny paper. It contained but one topic namely lithium. The article went on about all the reasons why lithium is really a hot commodity. The main reason is our government’s love affair with creating a green new world, but it never mentioned the part that the government plays in promoting this brain wash. The main reason is the need for batteries to furnish energy to propel electric cars. One thing I thought interesting is the paragraph about power companies that are building huge batteries to store electricity generated by wind and solar.
Countries around the world that sit on lithium deposits are being touted as great investments. I compare this rush to find lithium the same as the rush to find gold in the 1850’s. The difference being that simple people are not leaving their jobs, to sell belongings to buy a mule loaded with shovels, and picks and life sustaining supplies. The one and only message coming at me from this fancy paper was that I should be selling my belongings to invest in lithium. Lithium is the main driver for electric transportation. I see the lithium battery as a simple replacement for a gas tank. The battery needs to be charged (filled) with power producing charge, while the ancient evil mode of transportation that got this world to where it is today needs to be filled with gasoline to work. The gas powered car relies on a metal tank to hold fuel which probably weighs under a hundred pounds and costs a couple hundred dollars to make. The electric car relies on a battery pack filled with lithium cells that weigh closer to a twelve hundred pounds and cost upwards of twenty thousand dollars to replace. Yes, batteries will need to be replaced after ten years of recharging. They won’t be dead but they will not hold as much charge as they did when they were new. So, an electric car that was able to drive three hundred miles on a charge will only be able to go a hundred and fifty miles after the battery becomes depleted. No problem, just drive to a dealer within the limits of the charge left and have them replace the old with a new battery pack, and you are good to go another three hundred miles per charge.
Part of the sell in this article is the financial opportunity that comes with the green new deal. The whole reason the entire world is foisting this fraud upon us is that the world will be cleaner and air will be purer, and nature will be happier. Except, they leave out the part about trashing the world to dig the lithium out of planet earth, and the environmental damage that will come as a result. A good look into the future of a lithium world can bee seen on the program “Gold Rush.” This reality TV program is a documentary of how modern day miners extract gold from Mother Earth. Basically they rip millions of cubic yards of soil to filter out the ounces of gold contained within. You wind up with a giant hole or trench and a huge pile of dirt, and rocks next to it. The labor involved in mining is as large as the machinery used to do the job, and the amount of fuel used to power the machines is in the thousands of gallons. Mining lithium is very much the same, except for one big difference, i.e. the extraction ponds used for settlement are filled with caustic fluid which is not healthy to man nor Mother Earth.
We are in a totally new world with this process. Past President Obama preached that he wanted to transform the United States. He never said what the transformation would be. He probably meant we were going to go electric and would rape Mother Earth for it’s latest gifts by desecrating the environment without regard to nature. Throughout this desecration there is not one mention of why we are doing this, like wanting to save Mother Earth from melting polar ice caps. Instead of losing land to pure antarctic ice-water we blindly and happily pollute the air and the earth with killing chemicals. The asthma created by releasing burned hydro-carbons will be replaced by asthma and cancer from inhaling toxic elements of batteries.
I suppose that I shouldn’t be worrying about health aspects of batteries since my life is nearer to the end than most citizens of the world, but I have lived through the battle to clean the air and water of the USA, and can proudly state that we did a fantastic job of cleaning things up. I do not want to put my offspring to the same levels of pollution that we enjoyed in the fifties and sixties. Instead I see a world that is jumping off the cliff into the cesspool of the unknown. Good luck!
This morning after taking my wife to her doctor appointment I stopped to fill up the Death Star with fuel. I remember when gas was 18 cents per gallon, and I could drive, and drive, and drive on a buck’s worth of gas. That won’t happen again, my bill for a fill-up came to $51.64. Even when I drove a motorhome across country I never spent fifty dollars for a tank of gas not even in California where they are noted for high gasoline prices. Match that to my current grocery bills and the old pocket book is getting pretty thin. I don’t spend much money on anything except food and gas. Fuel for the car and fuel for the body. All of this is because the government wants to dictate what we do and how we do it. Instead of allowing natural capitalistic market forces drive prices according to supply and demand they insist we need electric cars and we need to become vegetarians like in Neanderthal days.
I almost see the electric car thing becoming a reality, but I don’t believe it would get very far if it weren’t for Uncle pressing his Green New Deal on us. I watched a lecture by Jeff Brown, a financial guru, who is predicting that two very significant technologies are about to explode in what he termed TechShock. His claim is that artificial intelligence by itself is a very strong tech sector, and the electric car is the second. Putting the two together will produce a synergetic new technology of the self driving car. This concept will make so many new things happen it will make our heads spin. So, his advice was to invest in companies that will produce things for the self driving cars. Lithium batteries will be key in this new industry, and all things lithium will become hot.
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I have written about the electric car before citing that history repeats itself. In the very early days of automobiles electrics were being made to compete with Henry Ford’s Model T. It failed because of the problems with batteries. At the time I wrote it was my opinion that battery technology was not advanced enough to provide reliable power for cars. Granted it is getting better, but the infrastructure needed to support a world of electric cars will be the stopping block. Jeff Brown cited that Volkswagen is broadcasting that their electric car will have a range of 310 miles and promises to have ten minute recharge. It sounds great until one realizes that these super charging stations will have to replace gas pumps or at least work along side of them. Three hundred and ten miles is a decent range on a fill up, but finding a charge may be near impossible, and will be for many years to come. Remember when cell phones first came out and all was well as long as one stood within the range of the local cell tower? It has taken over twenty years for the phone services to provide the towers needed to cover the population and then only if you stay along interstate highways and cities. Try finding a signal in the boonies away from the highways.
Let’s say that the fuel companies overcome the charging station shortage, will we have enough power coming through the lines to give us what we need when we need it? My prediction is that the need for power will reveal the Herbie that dictates the progress of electric vehicles. Finally when all of these impediments have been addressed and overcome, then I believe we can safely junk our gas hogs for an electric.
In the mean time, I am driving my sixteen year old Death Star with 172,000 miles until I can order up a self driver to take me where I want to go.
