The Salton Sea likely contains 18 million metric tons of lithium carbonate, according to a new report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Lithium is a key component in batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), and that quantity could support battery production for 375 million EVs, according to the report.…
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