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So about that Lithium
Author: Raine    Date: 02/17/2022 13:53:24

So if you don't mind, You can read the post as well as the comments, here. Then come back here, because I read Bobber's blog and I was reminded about a story that ran on CBS mornings a few weeks ago.

Until we have the capacity and technology to move away from the batteries, it looks like we have a stopgap. We have enough lithium right here in the United States. Specifically, the Salton See in California. It would allow us to not rely on Asia for resources. It's geothermal.



NBC is also reporting on this.

“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.
Turning a toxic disaster (of our own making) into a way to become a global leader in EV Batties seems like a win-win. It could ideally work side by side with things like hemp.

I think all solutions should be on the table as long as we don't keep making the same old mistakes.

&.
Raine
 

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