Does somebody know the environmental impact of this? Would the lithium concentration in seawater become meaningfully lower, and if so have we verified that organisms aren’t dependent on it?
"The world's oceans contain an estimated 180 billion tons of lithium"
"Lithium mines produced an estimated global total of 82,000 metric tons of lithium in 2020"
Have an option to start extracting lithium from the ocean (which Portugal has LOTS of) would be really cool, but I doubt anyone would put a finger on it without have proper studies on the environmental impact.
Just kidding, of course.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/throwing-car-batteries-into-t...
You are completely off scale. The oceans contain 1.34e+21 L. Humanity uses 1.38e+17J annually. If we take ~10J to move 1Kg 1m up. That means if we spend all our energy on moving sea water, we can move 0.00001% of the ocean up by 1 meter per year.
Any novel ecosystem is close to shore, from those ecosystems most are already damaged by other means.
[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-21/french-nu...
[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/01/jellyfish-clog...
[3]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hinkley-poin...