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Originally Posted by pip08456
Oil is not the only source of sulphur, after all it's the 5th most common element of earth. It is only because of being a byproduct of oil production that oil is the highest source.
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So where are you going to source it from instead? Have you seen how they collect from around volcanos? Health and safety has little to do with it.
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Sulphur occurs naturally in the environment and is the thirteenth most abundant element in the earth's crust. It can be mined in its elemental form, though this production has reduced significantly in recent years. Since early in the 20th Century, the Frasch process has been used as a method to extract sulphur from underground deposits, when it displaced traditional mining principally in Sicily. Most of the world's sulphur was obtained this way until the late 20th century, when sulphur's recovery from petroleum and gas sources (recovered sulphur) became more commonplace. As of 2011, the only operating Frasch mines worldwide are in Poland and since 2010 in Mexico. The last mine operating in the United States closed in 2000. A Frasch mine in Iraq closed in 2003.
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Still no mention of the shortfall in Lithium, Neodymium, Boron, etc.
Doesn't matter one little bit how easy to make and efficient the batteries are, you still need efficient electric motors.