There are so many applications for lithium ion batteries right now though, even if we had production-ready commercial and personal sodium batteries, it would take years to replace all of the production lines that lithium batteries are going into right now.
So if it’s a real mine, I expect they’d want to extract, refine and export as much as possible in the 10 to 20 years lithium batteries will still be viable.
There are so many applications for lithium ion batteries right now though, even if we had production-ready commercial and personal sodium batteries, it would take years to replace all of the production lines that lithium batteries are going into right now.
So if it’s a real mine, I expect they’d want to extract, refine and export as much as possible in the 10 to 20 years lithium batteries will still be viable.