No Battery Fairies

As Steven Hayward asks, "Who will tell the Greens there is no battery fairy?"

Not only that, but who is going to tell them that their emission-free car is probably running on electricity that was produced in conjunction with, well, emissions?

There's always been a lot of magical thinking among the greens. This is just the latest example.

The spiralling environmental cost of our lithium battery addiction

As the world scrambles to replace fossil fuels with clean energy, the environmental impact of finding all the lithium required could become a major issue in its own right

WIRED UKAmit Katwala