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Posted on 01/14/2026 11:47:45 PM PST by SmokingJoe
This is more advanced than you think
Tesla’s Texas lithium refinery is the first in North America to convert raw spodumene ore directly into battery-grade lithium hydroxide, skipping the intermediate steps the rest of the industry relies on
It went from groundbreaking to first production in just 19 months, an unheard-of timeline at this scale
The process is cleaner too: no hazardous sodium sulfate waste, and a useful byproduct that can be turned into concrete
This single refinery can supply lithium for over 500,000 EVs per year and directly challenges China’s ~60% grip on global lithium refining
One of the biggest bottlenecks in the EV supply chain just got an upgrade
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Tesla built the most advanced lithium refinery in the world and it is very clean
I thought spodumene was an ice cream.
I got some on my girlfriend one time... She liked it.
All 3 colors?
Lithium is an abundant resource found all over the world. China’s secret sauce is its refining. Which means it takes oar and distills it such that it has some product and a huge amount of waste. China does not seem to mind waste. They live with massive amounts of waste at every step of their stupid processing plants. Its their ability to live with toxic waste that allows them to processes so much. If Musk is preprocessing the lithium (and America has lots of the stuff) then its that sentence about concrete that is important. But make sure that the waste concrete can be managed and reused. And make sure that the concrete is the only waste. Often they tell us about some small portion of the waste. And have to deal with the more toxic sludge that has no use.
oar or ore ?
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