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Berkeley Lab leading investigation to quantify and characterize Salton Sea’s geothermal lithium resources

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The Salton Sea geothermal field in California potentially holds enough lithium to meet all of the US’ domestic battery needs, with even enough left over to export some of it. Using various extraction techniques, lithium chloride can be extracted from the brine, then processed into other forms for battery production. Earlier post.).

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. We will own the battery. We will always own the batteries,&# said Mr. Thesen.

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