Tons of materials can make batteries, so why is the world, and the future, powered by lithium? And should we be worried we’ll run out soon?

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We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

Credits:
Author: Amanda Coulson-Drasner
Camera: Henning Goll
Video Editors: Amanda Coulson-Drasner, Henning Goll
Supervising Editor: Kiyo Dörrer
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Thanks to:
Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff, Fraunhofer Institute
https://www.iwks.fraunhofer.de/de/ueb...
UL’s Fire Safety Research Institute
https://fsri.org/

Read more:
IEA trends in batteries:
https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev...

Importance of lithium-ion batteries:
https://www.un.org/development/desa/d...

Recycling batteries:
https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news...

https://www.isi.fraunhofer.de/en/blog...

The dark side of lithium:
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/0...

Critical minerals explorer:
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statisti...

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:50 Battery 101
02:52 History
04:11 Energy storage
05:31 Weight
06:08 Demand vs. supply
06:58 Problems
09:00 Recycling
10:04 Alternative batteries
10:48 Conclusion