Exactly - no answer.
Dig up tonnes of spoil to get the tiny bit you need. Refine it at great expense. Use it for a bit (at risk) and then work out what you are going to do with it in it's refined and risky form when it exceeds a set capability.
Clearly the battery chemistry will continue to improve given the investment cash floating about in the pool but it remains a similar challenge. At least there is not a U238 equivalent byproduct floating about to terminate us all.
Mind you I do think there is a Tom Clancy adjacent book/film waiting in the wings about using them as mobile disruptive bombs etc. It would take little to cause mayhem. Small incendiary thermite triggers on the battery pack?
Last edited by Alistair; 10/12/23 08:47 PM.
