Sounds good. How does that work ? Do they pump the water through some
sort of catalyst that can extract lithium ?
Peri
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Subject: Re: [EVDL] J.B. Straubel in the news - Move making cathodes
from Asia to the USA
California is looking to “produce” its own lithium supplies, from the Salton
Sea. They’ve formed a Commission (a good friend of mine is on it) to oversee
it, and I’m hopeful that appropriate environmental safeguards will be in place.
- Mark
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On Sep 14, 2021, at 5:46 PM, Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
Very ambitious. Can Straubel et al do it ? I presume he can front a lot of
money, so that helps. And I presume he's not really inventing anything. Perhaps
the biggest challenge will be sourcing raw materials. The finished product
(batteries) is environmentally clean but strip mining is another matter.
Exciting. Best of luck !
Peri
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Subject: [EVDL] J.B. Straubel in the news - Move making cathodes from Asia to
the USA
Lets support a tsunami of battery cathodes made in the USA.This should be of
strategic interest.
Danny A.
https://www.mining.com/web/a-tesla-co-founder-aims-to-build-an-entire-us-battery-industry/
Redwood Materials Inc., the battery recycling company created by Tesla Inc.
co-founder J.B. Straubel, has been keeping a big secret: It isn’t really a
recycling company.
Sure, Redwood has risen quickly to become the biggest lithium-ion battery
recycler in the U.S.. But Straubel didn’t leave Tesla in 2019 just to clean out
America’s junk drawers. His broader goal, described to Bloomberg for the first
time, is to move a huge chunk of the battery-component industry from Asia to
the U.S.
“It’s both inspiring and terrifying to see so many nations and car companies
announcing their shift to electric vehicles,” Straubel said. “But there’s a
massive gap in what needs to happen.”
To fill that gap, Straubel has set out to build one of the largest battery
materials factories in the world. Redwood, which currently operates three
facilities in Nevada, is searching for a location farther east to build a new
million-square-foot factory. At a cost of well over $1 billion, according to
Straubel, the addition will enable Redwood to become a major U.S. producer of
cathodes. (Every battery has two electrodes — an anode and a cathode — between
which trillions of charged lithium atoms travel. It’s the cathode that largely
determines a battery’s cost, performance and environmental footprint.)
Straubel says the U.S. factory will produce material for 100 gigawatt hours of
batteries a year by the end of 2025. That’s enough for about 1.3 million
long-range vehicles a year, on par with the biggest producers in Asia. By 2030,
the same facility will ramp up to 500 gigawatt hours a year, he says. At
today’s prices, that’s $25 billion of cathodes a year. Redwood plans to build a
similar operation in Europe by 2023.
“These numbers sound insane, but when you look at what the market needs, I’m
like holy cow — is this even aggressive enough?” Straubel says. “Somebody’s got
to do this. In fact, we need at least four companies doing similarly
aggressive, crazy things all in the same timeline.”
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