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USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

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337 points antidnan | 3 comments | 22 Oct 24 17:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.927s | source
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__MatrixMan__ ◴[22 Oct 24 19:50 UTC] No.41918006[source]▶
Great, now ask the AI to engineer a fungal genome that'll help us purify it more easily: Frack in the substrate and spores, harvest fruit bodies on the surface, profit.
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moffkalast ◴[22 Oct 24 22:08 UTC] No.41919235[source]▶
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
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1. __MatrixMan__ ◴[23 Oct 24 04:06 UTC] No.41921714[source]▶
What are you worried about, zombies that want to eat your batteries?
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2. moffkalast ◴[23 Oct 24 07:54 UTC] No.41922815[source]▶
Was thinking more about sink holes and the entire area caving in after much of the underground is destabilized and/or removed, but battery eating zombies would be worse.
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3. __MatrixMan__ ◴[24 Oct 24 00:57 UTC] No.41930842[source]▶
Ideally we'd just be removing lithium and adding mycelium (mostly carbon) so the net mass removed would be near zero. The zombies though, yeah, that's a worry.

I assumed you were worried about GMO fungus wrecking the soil ecology or somesuch. Not an insignificant risk, but it's hard to believe that it could be worse than tiling the surface with evaporation ponds.