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bogfit on Jan 07, 2024 10:15am
Salton Sea - lithium source of the future
The new analysis — led by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and reported here for the first time — finds we may be able to extract 18 million metric tons of “white gold” from the heated underground pool, which is not connected to the surface lake. That’s the first thoroughly documented public estimate of how much lithium is available at the Salton Sea, said Alex Prisjatschew, an engineer with the U.S. Department of Energy, which funded the analysis — and it’s higher than past guesses.
“It’s going to be roughly the equivalent of 382 million electric vehicle batteries,” Prisjatschew told me.
There are fewer than 300 million cars and trucks registered in the United States today. So yeah, that’s a big deal.
The Salton Sea has even more lithium than previously thought (latimes.com) b.
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