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Originally Posted by nomadking
1) The oil refineries would still have to be producing petrochemicals.
2) The oil is going to run out.
Still not addressing the shortages of Lithium, Boron, Neodymium etc.
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1. Not a major problem, if
2. We’re not burning most of it in internal combustion engines. In any case
2b. The oil isn’t going to run out - environmentalists told us 40 years ago that it would all be gone by now. Guess what ... known reserves are still at least as healthy now as they were then. Technology has improved, we’ve found oil in more places and we can extract it from wells previously unreachable.
As I said earlier, a chemically stable lithium sulphur battery has the potential to have twice the capacity of a lithium ion battery of the same physical size. So (for example) a Tesla model S could either double its range to around 600 miles, or reduce its battery size (and therefore lithium requirement) by 50%. That’s a very significant saving.