Tibet’s Lithium

As of the end of 2005 there were something like 2 billion cell phones in service worldwide. Certainly there are more than that now. Without lithium batteries cell phones would be a completely different animal. Bigger and heavier, you wouldn’t be stuffing one into a pant’s pocket. Now that the standard is set the cell phone industry is reliant on lithium for its existence. Cell phones are, of course, not the only high technology reliant on lithium. Laptop computers (with much, much larger lithium batteries than cell phones), a wide array of personal electronic devices like iPods, and increasingly power tools are coming equipped with lithium batteries as large as laptop batteries. And, eventually, in the grand daddy of all lithium usage, electric, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid vehicles, are nearly all being developed with lithium for clean energy storage in mind. Image source: healingcrystals.com. > Continue.

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