Comments on: Peak Lithium: EVs’ Dirty Little Secret? http://carbonnation.info/2008/10/14/peak-lithium-evs-dirty-little-secret/ Exit Strategies for the Climate Conundrum Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:43:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: pfairley http://carbonnation.info/2008/10/14/peak-lithium-evs-dirty-little-secret/#comment-412 pfairley Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:21:32 +0000 http://carbonnation.wordpress.com/?p=266#comment-412 This just in via email from a trusted friend... A mole of lithium can store a Farad of electricity, or 96500 coulombs (26.8 ampere hours), or say 75 watt-hours at 3 volts. A car with a 15 kWhr battery will need 200 moles of lithium, or 1.4 kg. At $3000 a ton(ne), that's $4.20 worth of Li, about what a gallon of gas cost this past summer. Get real! The price of Li would have to increase by a factor of 100 to be a limiting cost in battery manufacture. And did I mention that lithium can be recycled, just as lead is today? Peter O. This just in via email from a trusted friend…

A mole of lithium can store a Farad of electricity, or 96500 coulombs (26.8 ampere hours), or say 75 watt-hours at 3 volts. A car with a 15 kWhr battery will need 200 moles of lithium, or 1.4 kg. At $3000 a ton(ne), that’s $4.20 worth of Li, about what a gallon of gas cost this past summer. Get real! The price of Li would have to increase by a factor of 100 to be a limiting cost in battery manufacture.

And did I mention that lithium can be recycled, just as lead is today?

Peter O.

]]> By: R. Keith Evans http://carbonnation.info/2008/10/14/peak-lithium-evs-dirty-little-secret/#comment-411 R. Keith Evans Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:00:40 +0000 http://carbonnation.wordpress.com/?p=266#comment-411 persons interested in an overview of world lithium resources should read my 2 reports in www.worldlithium.com The first was recently published by "Industrial Minerals" and the second in Roskill's Lithium Digest. Industrial Minerals is holding a conference on Lithium Supply and Markets in Santiago, Chile, 26-28th January 2009, in which the issue of reserves will be prominently featured. persons interested in an overview of world lithium resources should read my 2 reports in http://www.worldlithium.com
The first was recently published by “Industrial Minerals” and the second in Roskill’s Lithium Digest.
Industrial Minerals is holding a conference on Lithium Supply and Markets in Santiago, Chile, 26-28th January 2009, in which the issue of reserves will be prominently featured.

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