The environmentalists heads will explode!
Game changer if true.
We’ve got to save the fracking technology. Who knows? We might discover a cure to global warming. Maybe even a cure for cancer.
... rare earth mineral
Not particularly rare, more common than lead for example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth’s_crust
if they can do it with fracking wastewater — then they should be able to do it with desalination waste water
Lithium is not a rare earth. Fail.
I didn’t know that they had that much lithium in their flow back water.
Kind of like Aluminum in the early 18th century. Electricity turned it from a precious metal to common trash.
Winning!
“rare earth mineral”
sigh. typical ignorance and laziness by so-called “journalists” ... rare earth minerals contain rare earth elements ... lithium is relatively rare, but is an alkali metal, NOT a rare earth element, which belong to the fifteen lanthanides, plus scandium and yttrium ...
Question to anyone...
Was all the lithium in the universe created during the Big Bang?
Or - is some lithium still being produced inside stars at various stages of star birth-life-death?
Thanks!
“White Petroleum”