Apr, 28 2021 ()
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. Image: Benjamin Purper/KVCR
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.
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