The new frontier of Lithium
life of fossil fuels is faced with a future if given very close to maturity.
they are still ahead of us 20 or 30 years of use of petroleum is not yet clear, but certainly the focus and attention of the whole industry is turning with some interest elsewhere away from the 'noble' black gold, because of some of ills of this planet, including warming from CO2 is the main side effect.
great nation like the United States and China are reversed, they focused on the future that is opening doors for access to the use of alternative energy sources to hydrocarbons.
Although the bankruptcy agreement in Copenhagen, burdened with no formal commitment in terms of reductions in CO2 emissions by the participating states, is entering into the circulation in the common thought of statesmen around the world that the road to a new development is in research and development of new sources of clean energy applied to our everyday life.
particularly in strategic sectors such as transport and motor vehicles using hybrid power sources (idocarburi / electric) or electric-only is becoming the target required for a revolution towards sustainable development in 'green'.
The interests of big companies like Toyota, GM, Fiat and Chrysler focused on the use of electric traction for the new generation of vehicles is taking shape with the development, engineering and application of new Lithium batteries.
This new target that is driving the car behind other major economic sectors of industry worldwide, has increased the interest towards lithium (alkali metal), a material that is available in nature alloyed with other elements.
E 'and then began the race to lithium, in every corner of the world, large multinational mining in search of new deposits are explored and have begun a race to conquest and exploitation of existing mines.
E 'known to the world's leading producer of this precious material is Bolivia, which holds about 50% of deposits of lithium in the world today.
This huge resource in the hands of the Bolivian State is allowing the poor Bolivian President Evo Morales is a great advantage, where his anti-capitalist ideologies but in contrast with the policies of the United States and the rest of the industrialized world, will allow him to play a important part in the granting of rights to mining corporations of metals.
After Bolivia in the world there are other important deposits of lithium in South-Africa, Australia, USA, etc.. conplessivamente which in 2008 supplied the manufacturers of batteries for a total of about 108,000 tons of lithium carbonate.
Even China which has already put his long arm over most of energy resources in the African continent, has focused in its objectives the business of lithium.
here will also be a struggle between multinational corporations who will control the conquest of this new era of gold?
E 'sure that this new frontier will reap new victims between those who will try to nail in their hands the destiny of our planet, subjugating the use of those technologies that can no longer do without here in the next 50 years.
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