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[–] Nima@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sodium isn't rare in the slightest. according to Wikipedia, "Sodium is the sixth most abundant element in the Earth's crust and exists in numerous minerals such as feldspars, sodalite, and halite (NaCl)."

salt isn't going anywhere. no need to fret.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca -3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

We had a shortage in Canada... but after looking into it, it appears to have been caused by a labour strike. LOL

Yes, it's abundant. But it is still a finite resource that needs to be mined/harvested, and what will that look like when the EVs are running off sodium-ion batteries?

[–] greenmarty@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Bit better then when we mined coal or lithium since it's so abundant we don't have to fck up whole regions for it to get to the little bit here and there. Desalination makes sense, dried death salt lakes also seems logical etc. Salt is everywhere. People are even building artificial "caves" with salt for others to go breath salty air inside.

[–] TheHotze@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A lot of desalinization plants just release the salty brine back out to sea, it's actually an ecological problem, so finding another use for it might convince them to capture and separate that for manufacturing uses.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

That would be a really nice idea!

We had a shortage in Canada... but after looking into it, it appears to have been caused by a labour strike. LOL

That's a capitalism problem, not a resource problem. All resources require labor to harvest, renewable or no.