This has been a popsci fantasy for a quarter of a century or more. Google tried it and gave up.
I am 100% convinced Twitter is being intentionally destroyed by a cabal of evil oligarchs and nation states.
You’re probably thinking of cobalt or perhaps hard rock lithium mines. Most lithium is just pumped out of the ground as brines, just like oil.
Fire their ceo that they’re paying 6 million a year
Of course, but the percentage of capable zoomers who are actually tech savvy is much smaller than millenials, for the reasons already stated.
Just the other day I witnessed a zoomer grad student who didn’t know how to use a file explorer on his new windows laptop because he had grown up with an iPad and iPhone.