FYI: An EV battery is mostly graphite and aluminum. (Although there's a lot of other stuff in it including plastics.) 1.3 million tons of graphite is mined per year. About 0.03% of Oil. Do we tend to focus on Lithium? 🤷‍♂️ Plus, I've heard something about sodium batteries. All these things are what you would call commodities.

This was awesome. Great founder, exciting company!

Kicked out of bolivia due to unprofessionalism... The company humbly acknowledges it was 10 minutes late in submitting its final report (12:10 am, May 16, 2022), and YLB has indicated that this missed deadline was the reason EnergyX was disqualified from the evaluation process,” EnergyX said in the release.

listening to him describe the process that his company is using to mine lithium, or seeing him wear that hat throughout the whole interview. What one was hardest?

Jesse said: it’s just a little pot 😂 33:24

Teague is quite an interesting person with his adventurer style of life and clothing to boot, but from his dialogue with Jesse, he does seem to have a good combination of vision and in-depth technical knowledge. I also like that he’s quite a tough guy, with a Teflon like skin and all, because he’s going to be going through tough times ahead to reach good profitability.

@adolfodef

Ай бұрын

He implicitly described himself as "the weak one" of his "adventure travel" group of friends. This was years ago (when he was younger & less responsible). He is "just like Elon"... except that he is not a genius. -> Likely could not even get a Mensa membership (his Stanford-Binet score

on Elon Musk's tweet: "We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it."? This was in regard to the Lithium mining in Bolivia. I wasn't a good experience

@adolfodef

Ай бұрын

There is no real need... as long as Chile & Argentina "behave" (letting extract everything as fast as possible). -> Any attempt to "close the whole triangle" (like Bolivia already did with their portion) will result in the rest of the planet (China & USA working together! cats & dogs! mass hysteria!) physically invading the place like if it was the 19th century [since it is cheaper than extracting only the other 25% global Lithium].

I hope the CEO have the capacity to make it happen

the challenger will be alternatives to Lithium-based batteries

@ryanstubbs3211

Ай бұрын

Like what?

@bjenkin2705

Ай бұрын

Don't think so, the demand will be so high for the next 20 years that it won't matter. Maybe after that

@dimitristsagdis7340

Ай бұрын

@@ryanstubbs3211 do a google search for alternative (to lithium) battery chemistries there are a few of them

@adolfodef

Ай бұрын

@@ryanstubbs3211 Time crystals [not a joke, real thing, check Wikipedia]

@joeldiehl2451

Ай бұрын

50M from GM says alot to me. Look at the GM 650M investment into lithium America's

Dude. Jesse has always had dark circles around his eyes, but they look terrible here! It’s very concerning. I was like that a bit when I was strict vegan. Is he on a vegan diet? I hope that gets fixed.

@melonmelon2848

Ай бұрын

Bruh Jesse looks healthy and kicking to me, probably real into that goth look lately

energy x should make batteries than work on a cheep ev car

Sorry this guy dodnt know how lithium is produced and was surprised. Sorry every monimal educated pwrson knows that!! And know this guy has inventetd THE process to extract lithium? Who is beliving this?

Didn't you guys destroy Bolivia with the mining? Also didn't this whole thing create political turmoil? 13 Oct 2023 - Elon Musk's comment “We'll coup whoever we want” was made in response to a Twitter user who alleged that the US overthrew ex-Bolivian President

@adolfodef

Ай бұрын

Elon is NOT one of the "300". But he "could" (there is just no real need at the moment).

I don't get it why this channel isn't really addressing the harm of lithium drilling and what it does to communities that live where the drilling occurs. I am open to being wrong, I may have missed dangers being discussed with this interview. Just like the Tesla investor meeting in 2023 video where 2 women of color asked Tesla to stop drilling on their land as it's harming the residents. I guess they don't care about humanity, just about profit. Is Lithium renewable? Is Teague Egan aware of how to limit toxic byproducts? I heard nothing about safety of environment and resources moving forward. All I hear is money, what about the responsibility to renewable resources, keeping water, air and ground clean and provide the ability to renew. Or we are just doing the same thing we are doing with oil. Depleting the resources at a huge rate by applying the same behavior that asks us to be innovative. How is it innovative? I simply want to understand.

@chrisRevGenetics

Ай бұрын

I see the FUD being said, not knowing that batteries are recyclable, that this is a way smaller footprint from current manufacturing facilities, that you have to try stuff in this “laboratory setting” because it’s not commercially viable, yet… this is the whole premise of discovery new ideas and proving them, that big oil tries to insert FUD into the competition. “Don’t crack the egg, you’ll dirty the whisk… before making an omelet” mentality does not help

@adolfodef

Ай бұрын

Even if it was that bad (it is not); the simple fact that THE FATE OF HUMANITY® metaphorically depends on this... makes the massive exodus & destruction of the cultures of groups of natives from Bolivia a small price to pay. -> The World simply can not Survive this century without that 75% Lithium global reserve. But as long as both Chile & Argentina do NOT attempt to "block" all international "as fast as possible" mining exploitation, the "rest" of the stuff on Bolivia can wait a few more decades as "The Reserve™".

@TSLApilot

Ай бұрын

Do you mean lithium mining? Or drilling? I think you are missing the point of DLE. One of the advantages of DLE is that you pump up a brine, filter out the lithium, and pump the bring back into the ground where you found it (minus the lithium). …look at the plans that E3 lithium is working on in Canada.

I will watch this one but Teague is too much like the idiot from Nikola. Feels like a scammer.

@tfragia1

Ай бұрын

I don't know, but based on the map on the wall (traveled all over) and being an early Tesla owner, he or his family has money. 😉

Lithium is not a renewable resource, so how long can the earth be stripped of the resource before we move onto something else that we employ the same destructive approach?

@chrisRevGenetics

Ай бұрын

FUD Please tell the process of how lithium disappears,, unlike oil that is burned away

@melonmelon2848

Ай бұрын

Except it actually is? Now find me an ounce of recyclable diesel and gasoline once you burned and "discharged" them like batteries

@darrell5997

Ай бұрын

Lithium is the 3rd most common element in the Universe. The Sun would burn out before we would run out lithium.