Disruptive new lithium extraction technologies use leaching, solvent extraction, geothermal extraction, and electrolysis. Leading companies include Lithium Australia, POSCO, Simbol, Tenova Bateman, ...
Demand for lithium is rising fast as electric vehicles, wind turbines, and grid-scale batteries ...
"Hypersaline brine" is industrial waste-water with salt levels that exceed even that of seawater. It's a big, expensive, destructive problem which a team of engineers at Columbia University in New ...
Over the past year, researchers have been refining their unconventional desalination approach for hypersaline brines -- temperature swing solvent extraction (TSSE) -- that shows great promise for ...
Demand for lithium is skyrocketing as factories across the world churn out electric vehicles and the massive batteries that make wind turbines and solar panels reliable sources of energy.