Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 31, 2022
Brine pools for lithium mining. The lithium battery economy, driven largely by the growing electrical vehicle market, presents opportunities for water and wastewater businesses across the value chain, according to a new report from BlueTech Research. Water reduction. Recycling growth.
Charged
MAY 16, 2023
GM’s investment arm GM Ventures is leading a $50-million Series B financing round in Energy Exploration Technologies ( EnergyX ) and will develop the company’s lithium extraction and refinery technology. This could help create a lithium supply chain in North America that may otherwise be unviable, the company said. Source: GM
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Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 3, 2021
Sebastien Farnaud, Professor of Bio-innovation and Enterprise, said: “Most of the world’s lithium lies under the Atacama Desert in South America, where mining threatens local people and ecosystems. Despite the high costs, these plants rarely recover all valuable battery materials. Find out more about the research here.
Charged
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Chile-based Ensorcia Metals , a specialist in extraction and transformation of lithium, reports that as a first step in its global expansion plans, it will invest €200 million for the construction of a European lithium hydroxide conversion plant under the auspices of its subsidiary, Sorcia Europe. Source: Green Car Congress
Charged
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Everybody loves lithium, but mining it does have an environmental footprint. But what if I told you that there’s a way to extract lithium from existing oil wells, and that it’s not only greener than other lithium extraction methods, but could even clean up some of the damage from the oil drilling?
Charged
MAY 10, 2021
Geologists have estimated that an area in the Upper Rhine Valley, in the Black Forest area of southwestern Germany, holds enough lithium for more than 400 million electric cars, making it one of the world’s biggest deposits. The trove could reduce the reliance of the German car industry on imported lithium.
R-Squared Energy
JANUARY 17, 2022
But increasingly in the next century, it is lithium that will be the critical commodity. This will result in a tremendous increase in lithium consumption. According to a newly-published white paper by California-based lithium-ion battery supplier OneCharge : “It is estimated that the U.S. of the world’s lithium reserves.
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