Electric cars vs. flamingos
Recode Daily
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🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Think about cheese. |
| 0:02.0 | Make your thoughts cheesier. |
| 0:04.2 | Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, |
| 0:06.3 | Chipotle sauce and Amadea cheese melt. |
| 0:08.3 | And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's. |
| 0:12.0 | Did we mention it's cheesy? |
| 0:13.9 | Cheese. |
| 0:15.8 | Availments at the 4th of Jan, 226 from 11am. |
| 0:18.1 | Price and participation may vary. |
| 0:19.2 | Subjects availability. |
| 0:25.7 | It's Rico Daily. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Ronnie Mola. |
| 0:39.6 | Tucked away in the Andean Highlands of South America is a place that looks out of this world. |
| 0:47.9 | It's kind of like the surface of Mars with this rust-colored terrain, with jagged rocks all over the landscape, |
| 0:51.9 | and it is one of the driest places on Earth. |
| 0:55.8 | That's Benji Jones, who covers the biodiversity crisis for Vox. And within this landscape that feels very desolate, you have a bunch of these saline lakes, |
| 1:03.8 | these really large, salty lakes, and underneath these lakes is groundwater that is very, very rich in lithium. |
| 1:13.6 | It's the element powering nearly all of our cell phones, laptops, and the ever-growing demand for electric cars. |
| 1:19.6 | And here, you could find more than half the world's supply of lithium. |
| 1:24.6 | It's pretty amazing. So it's been used for decades to treat bipolar disorder as a mood regulator. |
| 1:32.2 | And commonly today, pretty much all mobile electronics have lithium ion cells in them. |
| 1:38.3 | So it is one of the most important elements to kind of the modern world and increasingly the world of the future. |
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