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Aluminum is 1000 times more abundant in seawater than (edit)uranium. Lithium is about 60 times as abundant. With uranium at $32/lb, aluminum at $0.75/lb and lit
by jws 6y ago
Aluminum is 1000 times more abundant in seawater than (edit)uranium. Lithium is about 60 times as abundant. With uranium at $32/lb, aluminum at $0.75/lb and lithium at $6/lb it seems that aluminum and lithium would reach commercial viability first.
Magnesium has already made it with significant production coming from seawater.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoI don't think your first sentence says what you think it does...
- Metacelsus 6y agoThe price of aluminum reflects the price of the energy needed to reduce it to the metallic form. Extracting from seawater would still need to pay this price.