I really don’t know. I don’t follow those efforts.
I think the place to find more is on the California Energy Commission website, or just Google “Lithium Commission.” - Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Sep 14, 2021, at 9:41 PM, Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sounds good. How does that work ? Do they pump the water through some sort > of catalyst that can extract lithium ? > > Peri > > << Annoyed by leaf blowers ? https://quietcleanseattle.org/ >> > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Mark Abramowitz via EV" <[email protected]> > To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Mark Abramowitz" <[email protected]> > Sent: 14-Sep-21 20:45:29 > 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 >> >> Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone >> >>>> 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 >>> >>> << Annoyed by leaf blowers ? https://quietcleanseattle.org/ >> >>> >>> ------ Original Message ------ >>> From: "cleanair--- via EV" <[email protected]> >>> To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]> >>> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: 14-Sep-21 15:35:52 >>> 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.” >>>> >>>> -------------- next part -------------- >>>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>>> URL: >>>> <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210914/41ec4651/attachment.html> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Address messages to [email protected] >>>> No other addresses in TO and CC fields >>>> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >>>> ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ >>>> LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Address messages to [email protected] >>> No other addresses in TO and CC fields >>> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >>> ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ >>> LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Address messages to [email protected] >> No other addresses in TO and CC fields >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >> ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ >> LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
