you know how I can I argue against that because

to argue for it is to say that we will eventually run out of energy and die.

I mean all of our civilization will collapse. So, obviously we must find ways to produce

energy and renewable matter.

The question is just how hard we should try, what pace we should go at.

And I i think

logically we should go as fast as we can.

Because since we know we have to get there eventually,

it's better to to get to renewable future, sustainable future sooner

rather than later. And get there before we do the environmental damage, not after.

Even if no one could say that

maybe there isn't that much environmental damage.

maybe the environmental damage

maybe it won't be that bad. Why take the chance?

You would say

We also looking at really provide the energy that we need. A lot people don't

perhaps appreciate that solar energy is already

the source that the vast majority of us energy.

Without solar power we would be

a frozen ice bowl

at about three or four degrees.

above absolute zero. So really all we're talking about

for the solar electricity is

is taking the tiny tiny of energy that

the humanity needs for electricity which I would say is

super tiny compared to the amount of solar energy that hits the earth.

You could recall that could see that the United States needs

with about I'm a

hundred-mile by hundred-mile group of solar power

so you just take a corner Arizona and that would be

they all the energy that the United States needs

I think the important

with with batteries is there really is no material shortage

the request has essentially an infinite amount of metal

as far as Mary's concert we have barely scratched the surface love

the the resort for the metal resource availability

above the earth's crust on and and this is a very fundamentally different thing

from mining

mining coal or oil or you know because

a metal is recycled I'm so once you have enough metal to support a given size

industry

then it just keeps do it just keeps going into in recycling process i mean

they may be a small amount that exits for such as recycling process

but it's quite a small amount I'm and

so 44 lithium-ion battery packs a in the case a Tesla

to the that the be a cathode

which is made of nickel cobalt aluminum is

the most expensive part in the above the cell

piano is made of carbon and and then there's a a thin steel shell

around the cell so I'm the

the really the only part about that is remotely

SKS and I i sat down only slightly so is cobalt

I'm and that's why we moved from a pure couple cather to nickel coal Flynn

cather

which use only about a quarter as much coupled I'm

but this this as much because you could possibly want

certainly as much as aluminum is as your you've made

I'm and much shorter steel I

and and the cobalt is it's very expensive but this certainly plenty

available to support all the world's meets

so there really is not some fundamental medals

shortage a with respect that fact spend as much a

end-of-life you recycle them I'm sit within you can do you think a battery

pack is basically

really high grade or and thats its

it's much more efficient to recycle a battery pack

I'm which has been essentially very high concentrations of nickel cobalt women

than it is to mine rock which has a very low concentrations so

you know it it's at end of life I'm

a lithium-ion battery pack has so about

ten to twenty percent of its value in

and as as recycling I so you definitely pay it pays to recycle