Extracting Lithium without mining
Everything Electric Podcast
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Can You Generate Your Own Electricity?
We use about $100 or $80 of electricity per ton of lithium. That's basically nothing. We don't need that much water. For just forward osmosis, you need water and these places are actually very scarce in water. But we do use electricity. Right. And we don't. Well, if we were trying to produce fresh water, like using reverse osmosis,. it would be considered a lot. A ton of fresh water costs like 10 bucks. So if you're using $8 of electricity per time, that's very expensive. Yeah. No, no, I can understand the economics. That's not a big hit. It seems like such an obvious thing
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