There’s a lithium bonanza happening at the Salton Sea. It's not without controversy.
Welcome to Boiling Point. I’m Melody Petersen, a reporter on The Times’ climate team, writing the newsletter this week to fill in for my colleague Sammy Roth. There’s a lithium bonanza happening at the Salton Sea. CBS News likened the scene of companies lining up to mine lithium from under the Southern California lake to the 1849 Gold Rush. To Gov. Gavin Newsom, the area is “the Saudi Arabia of lithium.
The process, known as direct lithium extraction, is said to be far less damaging to the environment than hard rock mining or by pumping brine into large evaporation ponds. The U.S. produces very little lithium even though the demand is great and growing fast with the rising purchases of electric vehicles. Already 11 geothermal plants have been built around the lake. Controlled Thermal Resources' project would be the first to combine electricity generation with lithium extraction.
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