Deutschland entdeckt eine Schatzkammer unter einem alten Gasfeld: 43 Millionen Tonnen Lithium wurden unter der Altmark gefunden und bringen Europa der großen Batterierevolution näher
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Deutschland entdeckt eine Schatzkammer unter einem alten Gasfeld: 43 Millionen Tonnen Lithium wurden unter der Altmark gefunden und bringen Europa der großen Batterierevolution näher
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Russian invasion in 3… 2… 1
Can we now stop supporting Vucic?
Lithium is in no way a rare material, but just until maybe 10 years ago it was worthless so nobody searched for it. We will find lithium in many countries now, that geologists start looking for it.
the luxury of post-imperialism Europe to have extracted and imported resources from afar, to only now feel the necessity to dig in the own yard. am not surprised they are finding shiny stuff all over the continent these past few years.
Lithium ore isn’t that rare nor valuable
The real business is refining
Also, please remember that after a while most batteries will be made from recycled older batteries. Better open mines fast and get product out quick because by 2050 new lithium won’t be worth a huge amount.
I understand they aren’t exactly equivalent, but with sodium ion batteries taking off, is it worth the time cycle and investment in mining lithium?
Bringing Europe closer to the great battery revolution?
Not at all.
Extraction and refining are extremely dirty processes. There need to be strong measures put in place to protect Europe’s already severely damaged biosphere. That is a bureaucratic nightmare and a money drain. Any mining projects will get permanently stuck in limbo.
Nothing ever happens.
Germany might as well start producing lithium ion batteries while they can before switching to production of sodium ion batteries, as one commenter on the thread mentioned.
I hear lithium was also found in Norway. They keep having all the luck
Every year another new deposit is discovered in Europe, but China’s monopoly still holds
Am I being stupid in thinking this is enough for about 4.3 million EV batteries (ish)?
Doesn’t sound like enough to spark a revolution but I suppose it does make domestic production a lot more viable
There’s a huge deposit in the border of Spain and Portugal. Nothing has been done about it yet
That’s a huge find could be a game changer for Europe’s battery supply and energy independence
The problem with finding something in Europe is not that it isn’t there (excluding hydrocarbons) it’s the fact that it is almost impossible to mine it with regulations
You can get lithium very easily and cheaply. Refining it, like most industrial elements, is a bitch and a half, though.
Which is why China has put a death grip on rare earth mental refinement. If Germany can’t refine it locally or in Europe, it might as well not extract it.
Just to add: this is not a new discovery, it’s a couple of years old. Neptune energy has the rights and is trialing extraction right now.
There is lots of lithium in Europe. Like in Finland, 1960s they found a large source (4.5 million tons). In 1990s they started a project to mine it and later to make it into LiOH. It is still not ready because of bureaucratic nightmare of starting a mine and starting a chemical factory in Finland. Mining started january 2026.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keliber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keliber)
I would guess also in Germany the trick is not to find lithium, but get all the permits to actually mine and refine it. Does it take around 30 years in Germany too?
Crazy how irl you can just find loot like that
No-one tell Trump! Germany will be next on the „invasion“ list.
Hasn’t this been posted years ago already?
Maybe we need an alternative to cars man.
Just to get rid of city pollution it is worth ruining some land. You already have lots more clean land.
I hear Germany is weeks away from a nuke.
Los geht’s!
This is a bit incorrect. The issue with lithium is not scarcity but rather lack of refining capacity.
Ok seriously every few months a new country finds „*the worlds biggest/a literal fortunes worth/5,000,000,000,000 tons of lithium!*“ so first off why is it still such a big deal? And second if it’s a big deal because we were running out then we’re obviously not anymore and suddenly don’t have scarcity so not only is it not as rare of a rare element as it was 5 years ago but it’s also being found across the globe like never before in nearly every continent with large population/potential production centers so it’s not even unique to a certain region any more. Is this like when Aluminum/Aluminium was so rare they used it in monuments, jewelry and fine flatware until nearly overnight it became the most disposable metal we still use?
soo the REAL problem is the bureaucracy, legislation, and cost in mining and refining lithium. america has tons of it but we cant safely mine it. china does it by paying off inspectors and local government officials to look the other way as they pollute everything and the government knows and doesnt care because it brings it a ton of money and is a important strategic resource.
in a country that cant even get much safer nuclear power plants, their is no way you are getting toxic lithium mines.
The great battery revolution is sodium.