Commentary
California keeps barreling ahead—in an electric vehicle, of course—pushing “decarbonization.” The Sacramento Bee headlined April 19, “Climate bills on fossil fuel divestment, emissions disclosure make headway.” But what’s the rest of the world doing?
Everybody knows it’s dangerous to depend on Communist China for all those lithium batteries powering the decarbonized economy. Bloomberg reported in March, “China Could Control a Third of The World’s Lithium by 2025. Increased output to include dirtier lepidolite, says [investment bank] UBS.”
So the world is beginning to move toward sodium batteries instead. But wait. The New York Times reported April 12, “China is far ahead of the rest of the world in the development of batteries that use sodium, which are starting to compete with ubiquitous lithium power cells.” Part of the story:…