Many people think of 3rd world countries, warlords, despot regimes, bad leadership, misappropriated funding, yet when we look at elder poverty, the shrinking middle class, the housing crisis, vehicles average selling price in excess of fifty thousand dollars, increasing government debt, increasing inflation, unfair taxes in many states, tariffs increasing the costs of goods that sell well to regular American people like a new.
A new iPhone after using an older model for 4+ years, faster, better camera, more memory, snappy fluid UI, ongoing software updates, better security and privacy features, better GPU cores & CPU cores & AI cores in the SOC system-on-a-chip main IC or 'the brain' of a smartphone or tablet, noting they have to operate in a smartphone all day with a tiny 10-15 watt-hour lithium ion battery of some chemical combination.
Not all lithium ion batteries are the same, notice lithium titanate can last 55,000 cycle, or LFP lasts 10+ years & 5000 cycles, while NMC or LCO used in consumer electronics has the highest initial capacity but fades hard through 500 cycles, reaching 70% of its initial capacity after 3 years of use in a smartphones, battery fading noted in Nissan Leaf models operated in hot locals like Saudi Arabia, where the higher head loading gave rise to faster loss of battery capacity, of the lithium manganese spinel laminate batteries in aluminum heat sink enclosures, air cooled, but blowing hot air over them.
Sony invented commercially available Li-ion batteries in the early 1990's for the Walk-Man, prismatic cells, they cost in excess of $3600 per kilowatt hour, while Tesla Battery Day tab less cells brought costs of lithium-ion batteries down to $157 per kilowatt hour. The most common kind of early li-ion batteries in consumer electronics lithium cobalt oxide cathode with graphite anode, they put the cathode on aluminum foil, and anode on copper foil, then oily flammable solvents containing synthetic petrochemicals with lithium ions as metal complexes dissolved as the electrolyte.
Lithium in Many Different Chemistries & Formats
Mining lithium means pumping up brine water in the Andes, then pumping it to evaporation pools where income sun and wind blowing over them evaporate water out of the brine, concentrating lithium, which is then collected like salt, then refined to purify it for use in batteries, LFP, NCA, LMN, LCO, any of 12 major commercial lithium ion chemistries, while minor low volume specialized lithium batteries are used in space satellites, that have to endure -250 to + 250 temperatures cycling daily, while operating for 20+ years and tens of thousands of cycles without failure, they are inside laser welded strange alloy tubes under pressure, with exotic thermal management solutions, solar PV energized cryocoolers chilling helium argon refrigerants pumped trough exotic alloy capillary tubes wrapped around every satellite battery, that is also able to keep the cells above 40 F in order to improve electron flow by reducing internal resistance associated with lower temperatures.
Enslaved Children Hand Mine Cobalt
Cobalt mines by children under slave labor conditions in the DRC or Democratic Republic of the Congo, think hand dug by minors, holes in the ground, making cobalt a harmful conflict mineral, yet nearly everyone has cobalt based li-io batteries in electronics they wear on their wrist or carry around in their pocket or purse, blissfully unaware that buying those electronics funds child slave labor abroad.
Lithium Mining Harmful
Meanwhile the indigenous peoples of the Andes in Peru, are losing access to fresh water, of what they do have access to in terms of fresh water now contaminated by acid mine drainage from the lithium mining run by CATL the worlds largest maker of lithium ion batteries, a Chinese company operating in the PRC where there is virtually no value on human life.
Why End the CCP
CCP broadly speaking, if not the worst, one of the worst government in the world. Why do I claim the CCP a horrible government? Hundreds of millions of forced abortions. Zero or almost no mine safety at Chinese coal mines. Tiananmen Square Incident known as the June 4th Incident where the heavy handed money over all other issues CCP send the PLA peoples liberation army of China in with tanks and machine guns and committed genocide of its own people, mostly college students protesting for human rights and democratic reforms of the CCP, then on top of that, a 20 year death campaign hunting down anyone promoting democracy or democratic reforms in China, mostly whom have all gone missing to never be heard from again, probably sent to a Chinese concentration camp for reeducation to learn to worship the premier of the CCP as God, who probably refused and were shot to death for failing to buy into the CCP rhetoric.
China's Economy Faltering
The economy of China falling apart, as noted on the YouTube channel China Observer videos, showing economic devastation, massive layoffs all across China, foreign & domestic investors pulling their money out of China, the government of China grasping at straws trying to make it impossible for companies or investors to leave China, yet this is backfiring, fueling further resentment of the CCP and scaring any potential investors away from China.
International Investment Moving Out of China
Looking to up and coming Asian Tigers or India or Africa or Central or South America, so called developing economies looking to improve their GDP with an increasing in manufacturing value added goods for a revenue stream creation via export based economic development.
Similar to what Japan did between 1960 and 1997, a virtually endless stream of economic miracles based on a public private consortium of technological development that spawned famous Japanese brands like Seiko, Sony, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Toyota, Honda & many more.
Even inside of China, WeChat and Alibaba are looking abroad, to escape unreasonable laws of the CCP, hemorrhaging workforce lack of labor access, increasing costs of operating in many Chinese cities, and lax regulations and cheaper labor outside of China. When the most valuable companies in China are broadly outsourcing abroad, and investors from abroad are moving capital out of China and into newer emergent economies of Asian Tiger countries, India, Africa, South America, where labor plentiful, were wages are lower, and where regulations are lax or virtually non-existent.
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