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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They will leave it in the ground until the One World Government controls America.
Numbers.
The article celebrates recovery of 1200 tons of lithium per year.
Global consumption 300,000 metric tonnes per year.
This is small potatoes.
The propaganda is endless and pervasive.
Won’t happening here in America. That would be an environmental disaster. Mining in other countries using child labor and fossil fuels equipment is fine but not here.
America is the center of the earth for environmental health, if we spend trillions savings the environment, what the rest of the world does is irrelevant.A
A Climate Cultist thought process anyway.
EV BS is dead. No one wants an EV.
This is boon is predicated on a growing deamnd for EVs. I am not so sure but IMO the EV “revolution” is almost dead.
The cost of extracting it far exceeds the value of the gold.
I do not see any attempt to determine the cost of extracting the lithium from the fracking water.
Hmmmm - “Government Scientists” make this discovery - while wanting to stop fracking and other oil energy productions>
Why do I smell💩as I read this?
Bkmk
White gold? Racist.
In this day and age, is that really “dirt”?
Well Philly is Philly but the thing is early voting that the only reason Fetterman is a senator. How the GOP does in September will tell you everything about PA. If they close the early voting numbers that’s the key.
This is UT Austin technology GO HORNS. The demo was done in the Eagle Ford Shale of Texas and the Permian Basin. As usual the journalists have no idea what units to use. 1200 tonnes total hardly more like 1200 per well per year.
Here is from the real scientists who created this tech.
“Just a single week’s worth of water from hydraulic fracturing in Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale has the potential to produce enough lithium for 300 electric vehicle batteries or 1.7 million smartphones, the researchers said.”
That’s PER WEEK not per year. Then think there are well over ten thousand active shale wells at any given time in the Permian Basin. With this tech the USA will never be out of lithium every basin is loaded with salty flowback water.
Lithium is a stepping stone to sodium ion and sodium solid state cells. Both of which are coming to commercial production in a big way in the next few years. Sodium ion batteries have inherent fast charge rates 5C+ and the new cathodes have 50,000 cycle life to 80% energy density is the lagging factor 160when/kg is half of NMC high $$ cells. Sodium cells cost equal to lead acid or less 5x cheaper than lithium cells that’s why they are going first into grid storage energy density is not a doctor with shipping container sized batteries. There are two sodium ion makers that broke the 200wh/kg mark that’s on par with LFP cells and with 5C charge rates that’s 12 minutes 0% to 100% sodium cells also can go to zero volts and not be damaged plus they can take 100% every cycle two things lithium cannot. Even if EVs weren’t a thing the new sodium cells are going to make laptop, and electric power tools even better. 50,000 cycles is ten times what LFP cells.can take and NMC as t 1500 is then buggy whip technology.
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