lithium economy

noun

A post-carbon economy, based on lithium fuel cells for the generation of power.

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nounlithium economy (plural lithium economies)

plural lithium economies

  1. A post-carbon economy, based on lithium fuel cells for the generation of power.

    Internationally, economists have been forecasting a lithium economy for decades, and it may well be that every car, computer, and wearable electronic device—not to mention our energy storehouses—will depend on lithium batteries the way I've relied on medicinal lithium for the last twenty years.

    2017, Jaime Lowe, Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind, Penguin, →ISBN, page 218
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