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Why not sell the brine for lithium extraction?
by tw04 3y ago
Why not sell the brine for lithium extraction?
- kvdveer 3y agoAfter lithium extraction, there's still a brine with roughly the same salt concentration, but likely with more other pollutants. You'd just be kicking the problem down the road.
- tw04 3y agoBut the issue is dumping the brine into the ocean as the only economical way to deal with it. If someone can make a significant profit off the brine, it may be feasible to truck it to a lithium facility then deal with disposal in a way that isn't just "dump it in the ocean and pretend it's not a problem".