Comment by 3form
4 days ago
>This is because of what the comment you’re replying to was saying. Aluminum was a scarce resource prior to the electrolytic process being invented that made it “distillable from common rocks.”
Sure, but it also said "it could have gone the way of aluminum", which is mostly where my point rests: I don't really see how. The disparity of volume seems to explain it to me fully.
Sure, I guess just “disparity of accessible volume” being the key thing.
If we found a way to extract gold from seawater[0], for example, it would change the accessible volume of gold quite a bit.
[0]: https://www.discovermagazine.com/6-times-we-tried-to-extract...