California's next big valley, "Lithium Valley," powering electric car future
California's next big valley, "Lithium Valley," powering electric car future
Long a hub of geothermal power production, a forgotten backwater of Southern California known as the Salton Sea, is a bountiful reservoir of lithium, is being dubbed “Lithium Valley.” The silvery-white metal is now in huge demand as it is used in electric vehicle batteries. Ben Tracy reports.
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You can bet Insider Trader Pelosi has her hooks in this project already!!!!!👀
Ridin’ with Biden, good job grandpa Joe!!!
I love it bruh
So the Australian guy said at this stage all of it’s for us keyword stage not permanently and then the guy with the geothermal plant subliminally admitted to throwing away lithium a decade ago
finding lithium? what about the 10’s of thousands of old batteries? funny how the US doesnt have one. so what will they do with them in Cal?????
Too little, Too late. I Remember reading about this lake years ago as a kid now its being worked on not just to save the ecosystem and the local area but also so companies can get material rights. What a joke only took the 70s , 80s, 90s, 2010, 2020 , for somebody’s wallet to finally care.
Lots of false information here. Lithium is NOT the main ingredient in a lithium ion battery. Nickel is the majority material in the battery. We need to start to mine that metal to get ahead of this.
To put economic value on natural resources extracted sounds like moving from one problem now to a future problem that impacts the sustainability of the planet….
Niland is now the backbone of Americas future
The Salton Sea is not naturally *drying up.* San Diego County is taking the water, a dirty deal brokered by the super-powerful Imperial Irrigation District, inflicting this major environmental and social justice disaster (high respiratory illness rate among residents near the Sea, etc.) FYI. How much more damage will be done by lithium mining?
China owns the land!!!
Who would’ve thought that the Man made lake would do something like that
My only question is why can’t we just do hydrogen vehicles instead of electric?
Lithium is already obsolete , waste of news. The new battery technology won’t use it ,Graphene is the new battery
At what COST to HEALTH and ENVIROMENT??…. TELL THE PEOPLE HOW MUCH DEADLY POLUTION THIS MINING CAUSES…. TELL PEOPLE HOW MUCH DESTRUCTION COMES FROM THIS MINING…. TELL THEM THE RESPRITORY PROBLEMS PEOPLE WILL FACE….
TELL THE PEOPLE THE TRUTH OF THE DANGERS INSTEAD OF BRAGGING HOW MUCH MONEY YOU WILL MAKE… OR SCARE TACTICS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
And what do we do with the lithium batteries when they are worn out?
Are they really going to let a bunch of Imperial Valley meth heads work with toxic heavy metals? Yikes.
Literally no one is calling it Lithium Valley
2.9% is astounding. For now.
lol to all the people who want EVs for a green future yet here we are talking about mining California out. Grand. Just a grand situation for everyone involved and having a conversation about it.
CBS left out that 1% is from the municipalities and federal government ownership. Only 1.9% are individual ownership.
California is plagued with roaming brown outs and can’t keep its own power on. They told people recently to NOT charge their car at home.
Well now California can stop being a parasite on the US
Tell me who is hiring?! I’m on my way to become a lithium miner …
So are they using geothermal and collecting the Lithium as well as making energy or are they just pumping it up to just collect the Lithium.
If its just Lithium shut it down.
If its geothermal and there collecting the Lithium as a byproduct then ok its fine.
Thoughts.
And the next best idea an American has when building an electric vehicle is an SUV. dear lord, your people deserves its downfall.
Calipatria is a prison town. Are the rehabilitated prisoners included in the hiring legislation?
This punk is checking my reality.
Don’t let that just slip past your conscious.. click away.
Since hella people in the comments clearly weren’t paying attention…
They’re not going to mine the lithium, it’s being pumped up with hydrothermal water. They take the heat energy and the lithium and pump the water right back down. It would literally be the most environmentally friendly source of lithium in the world. Australia mines it.
This is a very good thing for the environment and Imperial Valley.
Wait for lithium to leak into our water and oceans systems. Its worse then oil or gas.
Stick to TSLA 📈
That’s from rich parents buying them and lithium mining hurts the earth more
i would buy an electric car, if i knew how to fix it, lol. i guess i will stick to gas engines
Tesla Leads the pack
As a resident of El Centro and the Imperial Valley Area
I really hope we are able to reap the benefits and fix the Salton sea.
But I highly doubt that.
Can we get a robot president to run the country I know it would do a better job than what we have Now !
yes
Gm no thank you
So we are going to “ mine” lithium for EVs. So much for environmental concern.
Musk must be up all night wondering why he left for texas 😂 all cali lithium batteries should be sold to him at mocked up prices for all those years cali gave him tax free encentives
Blind Fools
for all the people who are unaware , California plans to stop the sale of gas vehicles by 2025. its just a matter of time before all states start this and we are forced to lose our vehicles because not everyone can afford a Electric car. I rerally hate this
Lol
gold was discovered in california again 😂
Eduardo’s excited cuz he gets to make more money cuz there’s more money in his district he doesn’t give a f*** about that community
It’s not that they didn’t care about it. The fact that before the price of lithium was too low to mine it. Now that it’s in demand the price has risen. Making it worth mining.
Seems awfully convenient. Draining the lake and causing a major environmental problem is now justified.
advance public transportation like japan , not more cars
Lithium + 5g =radioactive nuclear pollution our air will be filled with cancer
Real estate. GO GO GO!!!