I went and had a look, it led to a story I'd already replied to but forgot to applaud your effort, fixed that now, but I didn't see any graphs of emissions. I know there are some around, I don't think they can be showing much improvement if any, because we are still extracting, harder than ever, for the war efforts if nothing else. And I don't know about down under but here in UK there is no sign of reduction of emissions, it is worse than ever. We seem to have stopped caring. Eco protestors are even being labelled as terrorists, can you believe that.
I swear there is more rubber and petrol / diesel being burnt now in the town I live in due to kids with money driving huge cars like they stole them, the town is turning into a dangerous drag strip, it's like they are doing it deliberately to show how little they care, and there seem to be no police controlling things. I was guilty of this myself a long time ago, I used to insist on big sports cars, imported from Japan, but things were different then, there were lots of police, we would get hauled over for the slightest thing, even a noisy exhaust. I wouldn't be doing it now anyway, knowing what I know about the energy problem.
Anyhow, I notice you seem to promote EVs and batteries a lot maybe you see a future there. I don't, unfortunately. To me the final solution has to include aircraft. That will never happen with batteries, though there have been some interesting efforts, the best that seems possible as stands is a few tens of miles for a two seater non cargo plane. That is never going to stretch to jumbos flying for thousands of miles.
So battery EV tech can't meet the requirements of those very important stakeholders.
Hence why I've been pushing hydrogen.
It actually has many many benefits when powered exclusively from solar.
If you study it, you'll probably find that there had been some really serious misinformation generated about it, even in the classic reference textbooks which are currently regarded as the authority on hydrogen. Three guesses who funded all the research.
Can you believe that water vapor remaining in the output hydrogen from electolyzers due to the less than perfect conversion process is often called "Pollution"?
No wonder folk who know nothing about it think it's worse than fossil fuels.
Anyhow, you should think about this.
On your statements about the recyclability of lithium batteries, would be cool to know some references for that. If they are so recyclable, how has no one come up with a method of having it recycle itself on an ongoing basis, effectively extending the number of times it can charged to indefinite? If the Lithium is undamaged, it should be possible in theory to do that, but we never hear of it being done, there is a very definite end of life for batteries.
Hence why, until we see evidence otherwise, we have to assume that the energy charging capacity of the battery in its lifetime, is lost to heat, The calculation of that heat has to take in the atomic energy of the materials lost. Even if the battery only lost a tiny percentage of the materials that went into it to heat in its lifetime, it's an awful lot of heat, I bet you won't find much existing research on that, but it is pretty important to know, given it has to add to global temperature, just like all activity done on things extracted from the planet.