05/07/2023: Illegal Child Labor, Industrial Revolution, Photographer James Nachtwey
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The Future of Electricity
Lithium operations powered by clean energy are being developed in a long-neglected, impoverished part of California. The region is being called Lithium Valley, and just like the 1849 Gold Rush, companies are racing to strike it rich. East of San Diego and south of Palm Springs lies the Salton Sea, California's largest inland body of water. Spreading east from the sea is a giant, underground mineral-rich geothermal field, boiling with potassium, sodium, and lithium.
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