I have a related question: Does this mean the top lithium-producing countries[0] will experience an economic boom, similar to oil producers in the '70s, or is lithium abundant enough in the US and China to satisfy future demand?
The lithium prices may experience continue to increase, but lithium is highly abundant. It won't help the "countries" that much. The US and china has tons of lithium and so do many countries across the world. But most likely, lithium prices may start to decline if the US/Russia/China/etc who have most of the world's lithium decide to start mining seriously.
Certainly well connected mining companies might do well also. But lithium isn't oil. Oil is the basis of modern civilization. It is in pretty much every product you use and every industrial process. Even battery companies will use tons of oil and oil byproducts to create lithium batteries.
Oil and lithium batteries aren't comparable. One is foundational, the other is really a convenience.
Yes, there was an article about this in last week's Economist. Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile are the top 3 lithium countries. Due to the politics of Bolivia and Argentina, Chile is the best positioned to take massive advantage of it.
When I saw that it was missing from the website I considered for a second that companies are just foregoing the Privacy Policy with the assumption that everyone just knows they soak up everything about you and keep it forever.
This looks great to edit the content tree of static site generators. Can it render Markdown files? Is the syntax highlighter aware of Liquid template tags?
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Two years before this, following the shameful defeats in Sinai, when it had become clear how much Arab soldiers fear tanks and napalm, urgent orders had been issued, making it compulsory for all Soviet soldiers and officers, up to the rank of general, to jump through roaring flames, and to shelter in shallow pits as tanks clattered by just above their heads, or, if they could not find even this protection, to lie on the ground between the tracks of the roaring vehicles.
The Soviet Army re-learned its lessons within a single day. I have felt napalm on my own skin, I have crouched in a pit as a tank crashed by overhead, and I have spent terrible nights in the snow.
"The introduction of the helicopter was not greeted with any particular enthusiasm by the Air Forces, but the Land Forces were jubilant-here was a tank with a rotor instead of tracks, which need not fear minefields or rivers or mountains."
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_lithium_p...