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CTO and vice president of research and technology at Albemarle, the world's top lithium producer. "It comes down to two things: the concentration of lithium and the ability to extract it efficiently from the brine."
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Can geothermal energy solve the lithium shortage too? And here’s more good news: geothermal waters contain significant amounts of lithium. Conventional lithium mining has a heavy environmental toll: an estimated 15 tons of carbon dioxide are released for each ton extracted from hard rock mines. ...
This is where lithium’s reactivity comes into play; its loosely held outer electron can easily be split off, leaving a lithium ion (the atom sans its outer electron). The cell basically works by ping-ponging these ions and electrons back and forth. During the charging cycle, an electric...