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They would've if Trump hadn't just knee capped California's attempt at mining lithium from the Salton Sea.
Excuse my ignorance. Could someone elaborate?
We were going to start mining lithium and rare earth metals, but the Trump administration reversed the approval. The Salton Sea is the skeleton in California's closet, so turning it into anything OTHER than an agricultural runoff pit is preferable. The area is largely abandoned and highly polluted. It's a massive artificial lake that receded while simultaneously being filled with runoff. Before it got that bad, it was treated like Lake Havasu.
If it came from an environmentalist, it would make more sense, but because it's Trump, it was a "fuck California", thing. I really like the Salton Sea even though it's stinky, so I was curious if it was going to repopulate. It's not that bad in the south, but in the north, it's BAD.
It was a geothermal extraction method that made energy and recovered lithium without nasty mining.
It’s possible that the geothermal angle was green washing, but from what I saw (on PBS’s Nova I believe) it would have been an environmental improvement over what is there now.
Funny thing is Maine also just discovered lithium deposits, and the Trump assholes are picking on them for allowing the 2 transgender athletes in the whole state to play school sports.
That's a really good point, but I haven't looked into the extraction methods yet. I'm not sure if that will be implemented. Finding information is difficult. Hopefully, it will. Power, too, you.
They weee extracting the lithium from water pulled from fracking-like wells (not sure if horizontal drilling was happening or not though, I’ll see if I can find the source).