If I'm understanding this correctly the deposits are in the form of "brine". I think this means this "mining" would actually be "drilling".
This is why Jackson has to be fixed
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It's early enough that we are just considering this now. We have been looking at the South or Central Mississippi area.
Honestly it wouldn't surprise me that if someone does try to open up a lithium mine in the state (that would bring in major $$$), that some Ole Miss lawyer ends ups screwing over the whole state with a petty lawsuit.
Where's this map from? We have 300 acres in Brownsville. This would be Beverly Hillbillies worthy hype considering the only income for 40 years has been pine trees.
The lithium deposits are going to change this state. You can already see with the investments coming in. We have to have a livable city.
They ain't printed enough Benjamins yet to fix that sh*thole. I've yet to see anyone successfully polish a turd.
Which sucks considering we have oceans full of hydrogen. One day we will figure it out and that will change the trajectory of humanity and our relationship with the earth. But like you said - not any time soon.
I’m sure when we do the environmentalist will say something along the lines of “climate change”!!
Been hearing it for years. Not buying anymore. I sure hope it happens….thats well documented here. But I’ve given up.
Probably ***** about salinity levels after harvesting salt water or some nonsense
That would be the holy grail of clean energy if we could ever figure out a way to do it. Not sure it will ever be feasible though.
New mayor & state involvement will help and is helping. It’s an uphill struggle though.
Right. Maybe you could leverage a future super efficient solar energy tech to split the molecules to harvest hydrogen economically but at that point you have an efficient economic solar energy tech so what would be the point? Damnit, physics.
Here's another cool thing about lithium - may keep Alzheimer's at bay
I started taking 5mg of lithium orotate a couple years ago when some of this research started emerging in the field.
I started taking 5mg of lithium orotate a couple years ago when some of this research started emerging in the field.
We just need that Newman guy from Lucedale to come back & show us how his perpetual energy machine works. **
Its really not THAT hard or expensive to harvest it. The problem is that its a front end investment with no guaranteed back end payday….because there are no hydrogen cars. “Chicken or the egg” problem. If there were suddenly a million hydrogen powered vehicles on the road right now, it’d be really easy and economical to justify putting money into the harvesting and distribution. If there were even 1,000 hydrogen refueling stations, it’d be easy and economical to justify buying a hydrogen powered vehicle. But right now, neither exists.
It’s going to take a few Musk-like billionaires making a big bet on the tech and sinking in a lot of money on the distribution in order for it to ever take off.
Out of my element here but I've always understood that "green" hydrogen (getting it from water or some other clean source) is prohibitively expensive. It takes a lot of energy to harvest that energy so it's a pass - with current tech at least. I understand your point about infrastructure. There's just no incentive to exchange petroleum infrastructure for "dirty" hydrogen infrastructure. Dirty hydrogen is coming from fossil fuels so it doesn't make sense to pivot to that. Stay with the fossil fuels in that case and wait for the real clean source to replace it. A dirty hydrogen fuel cell car would just be inconvenient with not a lot of positive environmental impact or lift and shift to a better energy supply chain.
Back in '88 or '89 or so, that guy spoke at the W and a couple of physics professors and I drove over to see what he said. He seemed utterly convinced he had made a breakthrough. I kind of wish I had a copy of his book but I wasn't giving the guy any money. He got progressively loonier throughout the rest of his life.
Eventually the Capital Police will control Hwy 80 north to County Line Road. JPD will have Hwy 80 South. I wish they would turn the control of JPD over to Bo Lucky the Commander of the Capital Police.
Man what a rabbit hole i just went down. Apparently he drove a car around the superdome that was "powered" by his machine. Wonder if anyone looked under the hood closely.
Yeah we as Mississippians have been blaming the Yazoo Clay for post holes for ever. Now we know why our roads suck and foundations fail on homes.
Somewhere in a storage box I have a picture of me with that guy. He was definitely a character.
Well currently there just isn’t the scale necessary with green or gray hydrogen….because the demand isn’t there. Green hydrogen harvesting costs more than gray right now, but is forecasted to actually be cheaper within a decade.
I wouldn’t say its a waste to swap conventional fossil fuel vehicle energy for gray hydrogen as a temporary bridge in order to provide the green hydrogen tech some time to scale up and become more efficient. For hydrogen fuel to become viable, right now we actually need both because we need all the capacity we can get for havesting. At some point the fuel availability has to come on line before any automakers are going to dedicate major investment or production volume to hydrogen fuel cells.
The most likely result is that its going to require government subsidies in order to get it off the ground initially….that’s the only way to solve the chicken or egg dilemma. And we all know the administration that would need to provide those won’t be the current one. So its a discussion that’s probably not worth having until 2028.
