That campaign of disinformation is the reason Evans came out with "Part 2" and he refers to it clearly.
Post #3 quotes Evans, "This revision is written in response to a recent report which is alarmist in its gross underestimate of resources and, in several respects, ludicrous."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1127&pid=86654
The attack on lithium goes along with innumerable other misinformation campaigns about renewables - hyper-exaggerations about baseload, viewshed, bird killers, rare earth metals, toxic wastes, land area, energy density, intermittency, too expensive, etc, etc, etc.
You both routinely and shamelessly push hydrogen with partial truths, misinformation, and hyperbole that you use to obscure the fact that you run from engaging on the significant negative points of efficiency and infrastructure costs associated with H2.
You have - both - been engaging in this propaganda for years on DUEE and your predilections are very well known; so please, spare us the wide-eyed innocent "Who me?" routine as you make post after post of junk that is largely non-responsive to the points raised in discussion.
There is no material constraint for lithium that is outside of what normal market mechanisms will address in the course of doing business. For some reason you are obviously wedded to hydrogen and clearly wish with feelings bordering on desperation that lithium batteries were not what is killing fuel cells but the reality is the energy density of lithium batteries changed everything.
You might as well accept the fact that we will have moved on to new battery chemistries long before there is any material impact on EV production caused by lack of availability of lithium.
Why don't you do everyone a favor and stop pretending that there is a "hydrogen economy" right around the corner. No one believes it any more than they would believe you if you claimed buggy whip manufacturing were poised for a comeback.
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