{"id":150370,"date":"2022-11-16T16:31:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T22:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/worlds-first-electric-lithium-mine-birth-of-a-north-american-supply-chain"},"modified":"2022-11-16T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T22:31:51","slug":"worlds-first-electric-lithium-mine-birth-of-a-north-american-supply-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/worlds-first-electric-lithium-mine-birth-of-a-north-american-supply-chain","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first electric lithium mine: Birth of a North American supply chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-electric-lithium-mine-birth-of-a-north-american-supply-chain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the world rushes toward \u201cthe greatest disconnect between supply and demand in the history of commodities,\u201d Snow Lake Lithium CEO Philip Gross talks us through his company\u2019s plans to open the world\u2019s first all-electric lithium mine in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we\u2019re starting to see the chaotic and destructive early effects of climate change begin to wreak havoc the world over, the world seems to have finally reached a consensus that we need to decarbonize as rapidly as possible. Which is great \u2013 better late than never. But a huge percentage of the push toward net zero carbon by 2050 is going to rely on batteries, and the simple fact is this: there\u2019s not going to be enough lithium.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s plenty in the ground, but as we wrote a couple of months ago, there\u2019s nowhere near enough coming out of it, and while everyone seems to be expecting electric vehicles to continue taking over the auto market, the numbers look dire. By 2030, if all existing mines keep producing and everything that\u2019s under construction comes to fruition, there\u2019ll still be barely enough metal to satisfy <i>half<\/i> of demand. This will be a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/battery-lithium-squeeze\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">lithium resource squeeze of epic proportions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world rushes toward \u201cthe greatest disconnect between supply and demand in the history of commodities,\u201d Snow Lake Lithium CEO Philip Gross talks us through his company\u2019s plans to open the world\u2019s first all-electric lithium mine in Canada. Now that we\u2019re starting to see the chaotic and destructive early effects of climate change begin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}