Lithium and other elements can be ''mined'' through evaporative towers.
The point of going electric is the broadening of the choices; and more efficiently use our power grid.
Every energy source can be turned into electricity... but not diesel or gasoline.
NH's electric generation is about 60% nuclear, 6% biomass, 6% all other non-carbon sources, and the remainder is mostly natural gas.
Because of pipeline constrictions, I believe that we import all of our gasoline by ship... and now have some LNG shipping also. The NE power grid goes from base to peak... and thus has some capacity in off-peak periods to supply more to our State/area. Using that existing capacity is what the government is attempting to do.
It is very wasteful to have capacity that must be paid for that goes unused.
If they really were concerned with going green... they would reduce energy usage... which would most likely be a sailboat or rowboat.
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