CALIPATRIA, Calif.—In the U.S. hunt for lithium, an essential component of the batteries that power electric vehicles and cellphones, one big untapped source might be bubbling under a giant lake in Southern California.
The U.S. currently imports almost all of its lithium, but research shows large reserves in underground geothermal brines—a scalding hot soup of minerals, metals and saltwater. The catch: Extracting lithium from such a source at commercial scale is untested.
Teslas strategy for removing lithium is extract a portion of earth, use table salt, then replace the earth back from where it was removed. Hardly anything to cry about.
The last thing the environmentally problematic Salton Sea needs is large scale lithium mining.
В. ГАЙФУЛЛИН, РОТШИЛЬДУ: ЭТО ПОСЛЕДНЯЯ ОЛИМПИАДА
Lithium is madness and worse then gasoline.and lithium cars r worse thing ever. Because it's not unlimited. And the real good things r alcohol based fuel and hydrogen and vegetable oil fuel . Even to electronics they should find some other source infact .
It means the end of the California Lake !