All the way through--mining, purifying, battery construction, battery recycling, post recycling disposal. Hydrocarbon toxicity is well understood. Reactive metals, not so much.
You are separating a mix. Else cobalt becomes prohibitively expensive, like molybdenum and platinum.
Mostly, I ignored them. This is a commonly understood bottleneck to ramping up lithium batter production.
No one is talking about obtaining power. I was talking about obtaining materials to manufacture the batteries.
Exactly. And that is just one issue. Simple supply is another. Is there enough of various minerals at all? Mining space would be an idea, but there is a long process before we get to that as well.
We are a long way from our grid being able to handle the extra nearly 5 trillion Kwhs per year we currently get from gasoline.
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[/FONT]This is a red herring. Power is available from the grid, so obtaining it is a nonfactor. Pay the price and it's yours.
You aren't reading your own posts. You propose about a 100,000% increase in mining and refining, both of which are done in politically unstable regions.
The difference is in orders of magnitude.
Salt domes are the natural place to store things for centuries. That does not make them perfect, merely excellent. Lack of deep underground storage has more to do with politics than utility.