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ChristianKl comments on Stupid Questions May 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Gondolinian 01 May 2015 05:28PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 03 May 2015 01:23:46PM 3 points [-]

Cosmic abundance isn't the important thing. Abundance on earth is.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 03 May 2015 05:29:32PM *  2 points [-]

All I know is that current world production of lithium ion batteries is enough to make perhaps 300,000 batteries of the Tesla type per year if all that material went into them.

That's not much on the wide scale of things.