Just one EV capable of travelling a few hundred miles contains the lithium of thousands of mobile phone batteries. An e-bike with range of maybe 35 miles contains the lithium of 70 or more mobile phones. This stuff will get scarce, very, very scarce, therefore very, very profitable.

The number of people's lives that will be ruined by this, mostly in countries already impoverished, vastly outweighs the relatively few in countries benefiting by it.

Already, five year old kids are working and dying in mines for things including Lithium.

Other people, especially profit driven people, have the ignorance, and the gall, to eclipse the harm being done by the sheer bulk of Lithium with misinformation about the trace elements that go into solar panels and hydrogen equipment, and actually any kind of manufactured product.

The advantages of using hydrogen to replace the vast majority of Lithium batter applications including EVs are many, but it does not come into its own until the Joules from the sun are correctly valued, by being given for free, as nature is forcing us to do, sooner than most folk realise via inflation, like maybe a year or so.

Lithium batteries might be a necessity right now, but the sooner we can move on to hydrogen technology to replace them, the better.

For now, everyone claiming they are just fine are effectively sentencing the poorer populations of the countries containing Litium reserves to a life of slavery, lterally, every bit as bad as the slavery seen historically.

Bring on the inflation needed to bring money as debt to its knees, I say, the sooner the better. I know a lot of folk won't like that, but tough. The tiime to set energy free, and all people free is here, and we can't avoid it, nature is calling in the energy debt owed to the planet, we can't get around paying for it now, the only way it can be paid, by putting the energy of the sun to use, and feeding it to everyone needing it, bar no-one.

Ai, in my opinion, has arrived at exactly the right moment to help us do this.