We’re in a worldwide lithium battery fire epidemic

 Climate Science Coalition of America Executive Director Steve Goreham has warned against governments worldwide investing in lithium-ion batteries.

“This is a worldwide epidemic,” Goreham told Sky News Australia. “It’s a lithium fire epidemic.”

Last year, Goreham wrote an article which was published by The Wall Street Journal as an opinion piece. Titled ‘If Green Energy Is the Future, Bring a Fire Extinguisher’, the article describes how instead of making the world safer, lithium batteries keep bursting into flames.

In his article, Gorham explained that the increasing adoption of “green” energy has led to a rise in lithium battery fires, which are breaking out in various locations, including highways, factories, home garages and storage rooms.

The high energy density of lithium batteries makes them prone to catching fire and burning with high heat, and in some cases, even exploding, which is why airlines prohibit them in checked baggage.

A battery factory fire in Hwaseong, South Korea, last year killed 22 workers, with experts estimating that most were killed by toxic gases emitted by the burning batteries.

Scotland experienced two major fires in battery recycling centres last year, one in Kilwinning and the other near Glasgow. The Kilwinning fire burned for several days with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service urging nearby residents to remain indoors with windows closed due to the hazardous conditions. With the Glasgow fire, witnesses reported explosions, noises like gunshots, “steel flying everywhere” and a huge plume of black smoke. Ten fire trucks were needed and the blaze lasted four days.

E-bike battery fires have become a serious problem in New York City and are the leading cause of fire, causing 270 blazes last year and killing 18 people, with similar issues reported in Australia, Canada and other nations.

The introduction of electric cars has led to a massive increase in battery size and potential destructiveness, with a recent Tesla semi-truck crash in California requiring 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish the flames.

Automakers have recalled millions of electric vehicles (“EVs”) due to battery-fire problems, with some EVs prone to self-ignition banned from parking lots in China, South Korea and the US....<<<Read More>>>...

Western North Carolina has world’s richest lithium, purest quartz deposits: Is Hurricane Helene a land grab by DOD to steal these valuable resources?

Conspiracy theories are circulating the web about what really happened with Hurricane Helene and how it is allowing the federal government to seize valuable land underneath which are large deposits of valuable minerals.

Some analysts say there was unusual atmospheric activity during Helene's track that appears to have produced such a high voltage that something was able to "push" it towards the areas that got hit the hardest. The reason could have to do with all those valuable minerals.

"We have the richest deposit of lithium in North Carolina," reported 100percentfedup.com.

"We have a top producer of lithium, Albemarle, getting a $90 million contract from the Department of Defense to create a lithium mine. Guess who has 12 million shares of Albemarle? BlackRock."

Keep in mind that before Helene hit, many local residents were protesting against the creation of lithium mines in their area. Now, many of those same people's homes and livelihoods are destroyed and Albemarle and competitors like Piedmont Lithium, presumably, now have access to exactly what they want without the citizen protests.

Albemarle, by the way, received a $90 million grant from the DOD to advance its domestic mining operations – operations that locals throughout western North Carolina do not want in their now-destroyed backyards.

"Something doesn't smell right," 100percentfedup.com noted. "Are we seeing a similar tactic that was used in Hawaii for a land grab? Lahaina, Maui 2.0?" ...<<<Read More>>>...

Lithium: The untold story of the magic mineral

As far as cosmologists can tell, there were only three elements present when the universe was first formed some 13.8 billion years ago: hydrogen, helium, and lithium. As one of the three original elements, lithium is found throughout our atmosphere. The sun, stars, and meteorites burn brightly with the flame of this highly reactive element. On earth, lithium remains a major mineral component of granite rock, and also lingers in significant amounts in sea water, mineral springs, and soils. Lithium has also found its way into our cell phones, electric cars, and holiday fireworks. Every organ and tissue in the human body contains the mineral lithium, with particular importance in brain health.

Today, we do not tend to think of lithium as an essential mineral in human physiology and its critical use for expanding technology. Lithium does not evoke visions of stars, peaceful rivers, or strong, healthy bodies. Instead images of lithium are associated with pharmacies, doctor's offices, and back wards of psychiatric hospitals. Lithium is perceived, almost exclusively, as a dangerous drug used to treat severe mental illness with incapacitating side effects.

In a recent review in the New York Times titled "I Don't Believe in God, but I Believe in Lithium," author Jamie Lowe delivered a powerful testimony of her dramatic response to lithium - the drug that alleviated her mania and allowed her to live a normal, happy life. Her article also describes the kidney damage that has forced her to stop lithium and placed her on a waiting list for potential kidney transplant. She provides a unique insight into the life-changing prescriptive benefits of lithium, and the overwhelming fear she has of life without her lithium; a life without her sanity.

I have treated thousands of patients with similar backgrounds as Jamie's. This raised the question, how can a medicine provide such life-changing effects on mental health yet cause permanent damage to kidney and often thyroid function?

Twenty-five years ago, I attempted to answer this question by looking for the lowest dose of lithium that would alleviate symptoms. Rather than basing my prescription dosage on a number from a lab test that dictated a "therapeutic blood level," I listened to my patients. I began to see that patients on a lower dose of lithium - doses closer to the trace amounts found naturally in the environment - still experienced significant clinical results.

Psychiatry has much to learn from the untold story of one of its oldest drugs.

I believe that lithium is the most effective medication in psychiatry. Psychiatrists over the years have been hesitant to prescribe lithium because it is toxic at pharmaceutical doses. Concerns about side effects and toxicity are nonexistent when lithium is used as a nutritional, low-dose supplement. The untapped potential of low-dose lithium in psychiatry has implications for dramatically changing clinical practice with a safe, integrative strategy for the treatment of mental illness....<<<Read More>>>...