lithium economy

English

Noun

lithium economy (plural lithium economies)

1. A post-carbon economy, based on lithium fuel cells for the generation of power.
   • 2017, Jaime Lowe, Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind, Penguin, →ISBN, page 218:

     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.