Much as I enjoyed listening to King Charle’s classic British intonations from yesterday, nothing beats a good Australian accent for my listening pleasure.
Anyway, Australian Broadcasting did a take down of rival Channel 7’s recent repetition of tired, obsolete and misleading stories about cobalt in batteries.
The default technology for stationary battery storage, and even most EVs these days, is Lithium Iron Phosphate, which contains no cobalt.
Also worth remembering that one historically large use for cobalt has been in refining gasoline, but I don’t recall anyone on in the Right Wing echo chamber being much upset about that until EVs starting giving serious. competition to combustion vehicles.