Yet Another DLE CompanyLast week, the NY Times ran an article describing what a company called Lilac was doing with Direct Lithium Extraction in the Salton Sea, California.
Here is an article describing similar methodology being investigated by Vulcan Energy in Germany:
https://cleantechnica.com/2021/05/17/lithium-hydroxide-extraction-a-feasibility-study-from-vulcan-energy/
Good discussion of EU regulations re battery materials. From this I expect that DLE product will see premium pricing regardless of its cost basis.
I was hoping that E3 process was defensible as proprietary, therefore creating a licensing revenue source, but perhaps not.
So we're seeing interest in the process and perhaps E3 is too small yet to be noticed, but sooner or later its name will come bubbling up as more writers find the subject worth pursuing.