“You can bring that brine to the surface" said Jim Turner, chief operating officer for Controlled Thermal Resources, the company conducting the project. "You have a lot of energy in the form of heat that you can use to do work.”
Geothermal energy production has been around for years, but this effort will double dip by extracting lithium from the brine. Much of the lithium used today comes from Australia and South America and is shipped to Asia, where it's refined and used in batteries, which are mostly made in China.
With automakers shifting to electric vehicles, lithium could become the “white gold” of the future, and extracting it in California could reduce or even eliminate U.S. dependency on Chinese production, Turner and other experts say.
“It will be the largest lithium production in the U.S., and it may end up being the largest lithium production facility globally,” Turner said.
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So this has been happening in Waltham recently.
I'm actually half-tempted to park nearby and wait with a baseball bat. Recent video captured an old, white guy doing the deed.