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The world's largest lithium supply has been discovered lurking in a California lake. The Salton Sea has enough white gold to meet the US's 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