Posted on 05/27/2024 7:00:15 PM PDT by caww
Government scientists have shown that they can filter the precious metal from the state's shale gas wastewater: pulling tons of lithium per day, with little left behind.
They concluded that Pennsylvania alone could produce nearly half of the total US demand for lithium — starting in the first year — supplying this key compound that's needed to power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles to solar panels.
A project on this scale could make Pennsylvania a rust-belt Saudi Arabia, ending US dependence on lithium from China, which now controls 90 percent of the market.
People compare it to the Gold Rush, but the Gold Rush was pretty small scale, compared to what all this lithium's looking like,' Donnelly said.
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Yeah, for EV’s nobody wants to buy.
Yeah, for EV’s nobody wants to buy.
Pa would be as red as Ohio if Joe didn’t pull that in from Scranton BS he does once in awhile.
I like how in all the talk about fossil fuel they never mention that the big money is in the plastics and other chemicals made from the stuff not so much the stuff powering cars.
That region goes up to southwestern NY state, my old man was from there. It’s a forgotten region, the state government couldn’t give two f’s about it and there’s almost no industry to speak of. Boy they could use an energy boom to revitalize it. But of course, the state will refuse to allow it.
QUICK! Someone get to Pennsylvania and find a spotted owl, or a snail darter!
In Pennsylvania that would be “bog turtles”
Gee, I didn't know you had to use lithium batteries to power solar panels.... I thought the Sun did that, and could then CHARGE the lithium batteries.
Ah but we’d have to frack in order to get it, so no thanks...that would be like shoving grandma down the grand canyon or something.
Well, that’s one way we stay stuck with government mandated lithium battery technology... /s
I am sure, they will find some “endangered bug” and stop any exploration.
Isn’t Pennsylvania Biden home town?
They get to define “sustainable” any way they please.
First, multiple private companies have already done this. We didn’t need the gov’t to do it. More wasted tax dollars.
Second, the private companies cannot sell their lithium as the environmentalists are blacklisting it as “dirty” because it is a byproduct of fracking.
This is the same for hydrogen that can come from shale gas. It is not considered “green hydrogen” and is considered “dirty”.
Scranton....where Biden took Cornpop for a lickin’ out behind the barn.
Bidens EPA has prevented shale oil drilling whenever it can.
They scare people by funding interactive red dot maps:
“The Take Away
This is the story of just one of the 57,132 violations shown on the map. Obviously, some of these stories will be more compelling than others. While it isn’t possible to sit and read them all, it is worth spending some time browsing the map and reading the stories of some of the 73 percent of violations that we were able to map, either in your neighborhood or at random throughout the state. This will convey a sense of the damage that the industry has caused to the land, water, and residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since 2008. Chronicling these events is a great first step. Here’s hoping that one day the Department will use this data to develop policies that actually protect the environment, as their name and mission suggests they ought to do.”
Excellent pseudo science (sarc.)propaganda designed to deny fracking:
https://www.fractracker.org/2022/01/introducing-fractrackers-comprehensive-new-pennsylvania-map/
China will pressure Biden to prevent lithium production,which is why Hunter was paid the big bucks
by Xi and Co.
Pa would be as red as Ohio if Joe didn’t pull that in from Scranton BS he does once in awhile.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
True enough but for the well oiled cheating machine the state has organized.
Both Prince Andrew and Princess Kathy have “decreed” that gas and fracking are baaaaaaaad. That takes care of the richest part of the Marcellus, and Binghamton can go further down the tubes. EJ, GONE, IBM, GONE, etc etc etc.
Biden was born in Scranton, same hometown as our “dumb as a box of rocks” senior U.S. Senator Bob Casey.
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