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California s White Gold Rush: Lithium In Demand Amid Surge In Electric Vehicles By Benjamin Purper | KVCR-FM
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Rod Colwell, CEO of Controlled Thermal Resources, is among many hoping to transform the area around California s Salton Sea into a domestic source of lithium for electric car batteries.
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As demand for electric vehicles heats up, there s concern about a shortage of the key minerals needed to make them. The Biden administration has called for boosting domestic production of such minerals, including lithium for the lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles. And that has many hoping for big business in a desolate spot of California s Imperial Valley.
California’s ‘White Gold’ Rush: Lithium In Demand Amid Surge In Electric Vehicles
By Benjamin Purper
April 28, 2021
As demand for electric vehicles heats up, there’s concern about a shortage of the key minerals needed to make them. The Biden administration has called for boosting domestic production of such minerals, including lithium for the lithium-ion batteries used in electric-vehicles. And that has many hoping for big business in a desolate spot of California’s Imperial Valley.
A few miles from the shores of California’s Salton Sea, a construction crew is at work on the future site of Hell’s Kitchen Lithium and Power. It’s a geothermal facility, meaning it uses the Earth’s natural heat to create electricity.