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Opinion: Why Lithium Will See Another Price Spike This Fall

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In some locations, grid-scale peaking applications have already been implemented, often in old coal power plants, re-using the building and grid connections. The concentration of lithium in most brines range 200 to 700 ppm. Grid-scale storage battery demand can easily eclipse the need for automotive batteries.

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Stanford, UC Santa Cruz study explores ramifications of demand-driven peak to conventional oil

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Instead of modeling prices explicitly, they assumed that long-run prices for liquid fuels will remain in the ranges observed in the period of their underlying data sets (1970?2010, The major advantage of our approach is that projections of peak oil demand are inherently robust to a wide range of price scenarios. Historical scenario. (A)

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MIT and IEA reports take different views of the future of natural gas in transportation

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More than 70% of all NGVs and one-half of all fuelling stations can be found in just five countries: Pakistan, Iran, Argentina, Brazil and India. These include short-range, heavy-duty vehicles (e.g., They also emit less CO 2 per km than EVs in China, because of heavy reliance there on coal to produce electricity.

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The Dirty Truth of Petrol & Diesel Vehicles

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Even if electricity is produced from burning coal, the power plant is far away from population centers, transferred over power lines keeping any direct pollution away from the population. And the percentage of clean energy is growing every year as coal and gas plants are being replaced by renewable energy sources. In India 39.1%

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EIA projects world liquid fuels use to rise 38% by 2040, driven by growth in Asia and Middle East; transportation 92% of demand

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Other liquids refer to natural gas plant liquids (NGPL), biofuels (including biomass-to-liquids [BTL]), gas-to-liquids (GTL), coal-to-liquids (CTL), kerogen (i.e., However, other countries, including Mexico, Russia, Argentina, and China, begin producing substantial volumes of tight oil between now and 2040.

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