EffectiveLithium recycling and cells that use a solid electrolyte would be revolutionary.

Mechanomechanical? A device that is fully mechanical, but also mechanical.

science.

You can see how blinded by the media some people. I talk to my dad about climate and he falls for all the lies that the UK is ahead and doing so well on their part...yet are opening a coal mine and planning for more drilling for oil. Then you see this and people ask me why I have no hope for the future.

Can this be combined with something else to increase the total recovery? 70% in an efficient process is good, but losing 30% each cycle isn't. I'm assuming then a secondary processing with more energy intensive means will recover most of the remaining 30%, but costing approximately 70% less to process due to decreased volume?

In their current state, you aren't pulling any significant amount of weight any significant distance in any reasonable time with that. Not to knock EV bikes, I think they're great. But this isn't that move away from lithium that other other guy spoke about. If this process is as good as the article states it to be, then we might never really need to move away from lithium for a very long time.

Get real man, imagine if scientists relied on Reddit for discoveries. There's appropriate forums for that type of discourse and this ain't it. Don't come on here expecting everything to spoon fed to you and then try to criticize and demean someone for not providing you answers like you're entitled to anything on here. Get off your high horse and stop being a condescending snob.

Its a possibility but it will probably take decades to reach that point. We have already made so many mistakes in our development on this planet though that the consequences of those mistakes will compound and likely curtail future growth in a lot of ways anyway. Technology in the short term is definitely going to displace a lot of people though and make it harder for us to survive in a society.

Who will the politicians find to blame as they stand at the gates of hell
after having destroyed this planets capacity to support our life
form?

I know where you are coming from but a raise in productivity and consumption and in some cases shorter work hours or higher wages doesn't seem like a radical turn for utopia to me it's not like reaching post-scarcity

> Globalization at present appears to be teetering on the brink of collapse.

Oh yeah definitely.

> But it's definitely not the only way forward. Maybe the the most desirable way forward,

Yeah agree not the only way, mostly still just filled with idealism albeit a very desirable outcome as you said. A shit ton needs to happen even after automation of everything is in full swing before anything like it can happen and that is not likely to happen unfortunately.

Resource scarcity is just one evolutionary pressure that can direct natural selection.

Consider bacteria, for example. Even if you place them in an environment with an inexhaustible supply of nutrients, if you add small amounts of antibacterial chemicals, you will end up breeding bacteria that are resistant to those antibacterials.

Never said they had a better diet. Simply more varied.

I can't DM anyone. Might be a reddit problem.
Yeah, it does sound nice. I'm all for body and genetics modifications if that means our life would be easier or people doing them would feel better as themselves.

The ocean is the biggest practical source but desalination is expensive. They don't really mine it, they use desert floors where old salt water dried up. Lithium is a salt in saltwater so they don't really need to dig much. But in the ocean it's like 0.2%. In salt flats it's like 1%. In recycling it's almost 100%

Oh yeah, I guess there are people who would alter their unborn kids... That's I'm against. In my post I was thinking more about adults. It should be personal decision

These are already the lowest paid jobs, it's not like you'll be able to lower wages. I question how AI will increase the productivity of the jobs that are largely dependent on manual labour. It's not going to make the food cook faster, it's not going to make the server run and cover more tables, it's not going to make the construction worker put in nails or lay the flooring faster.

So the only benefits would the to be able to hire less skilled workers, but there is more to work than just knowing how to do a job. You need hand-eye coordination, you need physical strength etc. So there are other factors limiting the labour pool and pushing up the wages, not just mental factors.

With today's mindset people would probably go towards the white more, that's true. But in the times, when that technology is available, I believe the choices would be more aesthetic and we would choose what we want and feel like inside

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Imagine if scientists were like this... "I had this awesome discovery, but I won't tell anyone even the first thing about it, go study the topic yourself". Science and progress are about sharing, on the micro and macro scales.

These modifications on human embryos will start in china. Big eyes, bright skin, higher IQ. Then these modifications will conquer the world.

Ev bikes use a really small fraction of lithium compared to ev cars, and are super efficient and have enough torque to pull trailers. But car manufacturers don't want you to know that.

There will always be scarcity, we can get better at obtaining resources and get more efficient at using them, but they will never become infinite.

What is the monetary benefit of a server not forgetting an order? I'd argue that it happens so rarely that the benefit is close to zero. Glass is not going to make your server move faster or be able to cover more tables.

Similar with the cooking, cooking is much more about the feel (how hard is the meat, pasta etc.) rather than visuals. Cook times vary depending on bunch of factors, no two pieces are exactly identical.

These jobs are much more dependent on physical factors rather than mental, I don't think that AI can do much to improve productivity.

Absolutely this. Anyone who thinks AI will lead to shorter work hours or higher wages is hopelessly naive about how capitalism works. A much more likely scenario is AI will be developed to analyze your every moment at work and punish you instantly for even the slightest dip in productivity.

Lithium reminds me of the story of aluminum, which too was only available via destructive and expensive bauxite mining in third world countries. Now most all aluminum is sourced via recycling and makes for much cheaper manufacturing than sourcing from raw materials like we did decades ago.