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throwaway_12358134 t1_is0pm3i wrote

Reply to comment by userino69 in South Korean researchers say they have developed an anode-free lithium-ion battery that is 40% more energy dense than existing batteries and will enable EVs to travel 630km (390 miles) on a single charge. by lughnasadh

Lithium is fairly equally distributed, unstable dictatorships are a problem for oil, not lithium. Lithium can be recycled too, gas cannot.

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TheNotSoEvilEngineer t1_is0qw3z wrote

Technically... Gas is a renewable, just takes a long time to go through organic sequestration and pressure to decompose and resequence the hydrocarbons into oil.

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AdorableContract0 t1_is10gi7 wrote

Stretching a definition there. Renewable is defined as less than a generation or lifetime or something.

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