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Researchers develop a low-cost technique to get lithium out of rocks
- 1970-01-01 5mo agoThe waste level is the real breakthrough here. A cheap reagent (ammonium fluoride) for something so valuable (battery manufacturing at home) in such a timely manner means this is going to happen at scale.
- gus_massa 5mo agoAmmonium fluoride looks pretty nasty (and I know enough chemistry to not be afraid on chemical names and I even can write the formula without looking NH3F). > battery manufacturing at home Is Lithium so expensive? I'm not following the market, but I guess anyone with a big salt lake and some processing can make it. It's just cheaper to do "abroad". [Hi from Argentina!]
- gus_massa 5mo agoToo late to edit ... NH4F
- RetroTechie 5mo agoPotentially game-changing. Let's hope scale-up of this method proceeds quickly. The world needs massive amounts of battery storage to de-carbonize our industry, transport etc yesterday. Time is running out. And being able to tap into more sources of lithium doesn't hurt either.