by John Klar | Mar 5, 2024 | Articles, Climate Change, Good Reads, Opinion
A revolutionary new technology to extract precious lithium from brine water is poised to be deployed in the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The element lithium is essential to electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing, for batteries and eventual grid storage capacity. Precious...
by Dave Patterson | Dec 15, 2022 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
In a move totally out of touch with what is happening in the world, President Joe Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) provided a $200 million grant to a Texas-based battery technology company that generates most of its revenue in China. The trend in the United States...
by Dave Patterson | Nov 29, 2022 | Articles, Business News, Good Reads, Opinion
Can the White House be so naïve as to not get what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is doing with its ties to sales of US lithium mined in Nevada? Nearly every piece of battery-powered electronic equipment produced by the commercial and defense industries depends on...
by Keelin Ferris | May 8, 2022 | Articles, Climate Change, Good Reads, Opinion
The renewable energy transition relies on a soft metal called lithium. It isn’t all that rare, but it can be hard to get. Few locations hold the key to our technological advancements and climate change agenda, and there’s no quick fix to producing the lithium-ion...