gotta get lost (if you wanna be found)
✍️ fic by #Spodumene

🎒 #MoDaoZuShi #TheUntamed
🎒 #LanWangji / #WeiWuxian
🎒 28k, Explicit, modern AU
🎒 WY wants to help LZ recover from a broken heart when Mianmian gets married
🎒 WY doesn't understand why he himself has never managed to go beyond a third date with a girl
🎒 LZ wants WY to be happy
🎒 With a little push from Mianmian, LZ finally goes for it
🎒 Canon-typical CNC

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44688973

#FicRec #MDZS #WangXian #NSFW

2. #Spodumene, mined from high ore-grade low-toxicity igneous rock - the largest portion coming from a single #Australian mine (Greenbushes)

3. #Nevada lithium clays, an emerging resource.

This tiny amount of (not rare) #lithium is primarily produced from either sun-dried brine or high-grade low-toxicity ore (#spodumene), primarily one mine in #Australia (Greenbushes) - though #Nevada clays are an emerging resource, and there's an inexhaustible supply in seawater.

1) Lithium (non-potable) brine is pumped to the surface, sun-dried to concentrate lithium, hauled off to elsewhere to refine for Li and other useful minerals, and the left-over salt returns to brine when it rains next.

For the emerging #geoscience #earthscience #geomastadon peeps... We opened our new Geoscience Australia #Laboratory today! Very exciting! And I got to show off a new Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument to our Minister and have her press the 'start' button to analyse a #spodumene #lithium silicate mineral sample. Real #laser pew-pew sounds ensued and we had geochemistry composition results in seconds.

https://www.ga.gov.au/news-events/news/latest-news/new-laboratory-to-support-next-generation-of-earth-science

@Timmy Contrary to popular myth, lithium is quite abundant. In the crust, it's more common than lead, and more importantly, concentrates nicely (brine, #spodumene, salt-rich clays, etc). There's enough in #Nevada alone to convert every vehicle in the US to electric. Estimates for seawater extraction (enough for quadrillions of #EVs) have dropped from $25/kg a decade ago to $5/kg now. It's only not used because land resources are even cheaper. #Lithium is only 1-3% of a #battery anyway.

@tomstoreboe @elonmusk The average #EV contains 5-10kg of lithium, the vast majority of which is recycled at the end of its life.

The average #ICE vehicle burns its *entire weight in oil* every single year of its ~20 year lifespan. No recovery.

#Lithium is produced from sun-dried saltwater (#salar) or from super-concentrated ore mainly in a single mine in Australia (#spodumene / #Greenbushes). #Oil is one of the most polluting things humans produce.

Luddites are the problem, not the solution.