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Big Oil Is Getting Serious About Lithium
- archo 3y agohttps://archive.is/NNJGe https://archive.is/NNJGe
- defrost 3y agoStill drilling for oil though, just looking to perhaps extract lithium from 'waste' brine water as a sideline. In ballpark related battery tech news: Vanadium could be the next lithium for big battery tech Thu 9 August 2023 Big batteries across Australia could one day be powered by a little-known element called vanadium and manufactured onshore, an industry leader says. The silvery-grey metal is the latest “pit to grid” sensation for electricity system operators, although most people have never heard of it. https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/diggers-and-dealers-vanadium-could-be-the-next-lithium-for-big-battery-tech-20230809-p5dv3w.html https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/digger... ( Diggers and Dealers is one of the regular global mining industry get togethers, this one held in Western Australia ) Australia's first commercial vanadium-flow battery storage completed in South Australia Fri 23 Jun 2023 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-23/vanadium-flow-battery-south-australia/102515616 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-23/vanadium-flow-battery...