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The worlds largest lithium supply has been discovered lurking in a California lake. The Salton Sea has enough white gold to meet the USs demand for decades and power 375 million EVs.

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Lithium Resource Research and Innovation Center and Energy Storage Center are currently studying the Salton Sea Known Geothermal Resource Area in Southern California’s Imperial Valley as a potential domestic source of lithium for the United States.

If you had a jar of marbles of many different colors but wanted only the green ones, how could you efficiently pick them out- What if it wasn't marbles but a jar of glitter, and there was sand, glue, and mud mixed in- That begins to describe the complexity of the brine pumped out from beneath California's Salton Sea as part of geothermal energy production.

Berkeley Lab scientists assess the technology landscape for developing a domestic source of lithium

The global demand for the element could grow tenfold by 2030

If you had a jar of marbles of many different colors but wanted only the green ones, how could you efficiently pick them out? What if it wasn’t marbles

The lure of lithium gets serious Power demand means we need new sources. Credit: MF3d / Getty Images Scientists and engineers seeking to power the alternative-energy future are scrambling to find new sources of lithium for rechargeable batteries.  The overall demand, a panel of researchers said today at the virtual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, is expected to double in the next five years, and increase tenfold by 2030. Much will be driven by the increasing use of electric vehicles...