Nice, but it will take a few years. It will extract lithium from the brine of the geothermal plant at the Salton Sea. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/04/21/statevolt-plans-54-gigawatt-hour-battery-factory-in-southern-california/
Archive for the ‘Lithium’ Category:
2022-04-01 LFP Batteries Almost As Good As NMC
Article gives Wh/kg for new LFP and cobalt free batteries. The recent excessive high price of nickel is causing the industry to reduce or avoid it. Also eliminating cobalt. The future batteries may become dependent on phosphate, of which 70% of the world supply is in Morocco. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/03/31/lfp-battery-news-is-the-end-of-nickel-in-sight/
2022-03-26 Musk: Nickel Manganese Batteries
She said the one very important point at the end: << Estimates show that the world is going to need 300 terawatt-hours of battery cell production in order to transition fully to a sustainable future. That is an obscene figure. >> This is a obscenely huge amount of battery cells. This is why the world
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2022-03-24 LFP To Dominate 3TWh Battery Storage By 2030
https://www.energy-storage.news/lfp-to-dominate-3twh-global-lithium-ion-battery-market-by-2030/
2022-03-20 Tesla Trying To Meet Battery Production Goals
Tesla is trying to meet goals for battery production. This article gets into the technical details of the wet and dry battery production, like NMP. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/03/19/can-tesla-meet-2022-goals-for-in-house-battery-production/
2022-03-07 Battery Gives 750+ Miles Very Long Range
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/02/us-ev-battery-manufacturer-demonstrates-750-mile-range-raises-65-million/ The changes in chemical engineering are not coming fast enough. The difficulties are balancing tradeoffs in multiple factors. There is the battery’s Wh per kg. Then there’s the charge/discharge cycles. There are the toxicity, safety and fire hazards of the chemicals. And then there is the ability to develop a method of mass production.
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2022-02-24 Lithium Below Salton Sea
There are millions of metric tons of lithium in the brine below the Salton Sea. There is a geothermal power plant there that uses the hot brine. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/02/23/lithium-beneath-californias-salton-sea/
2022-02-20 “Holy Grail Of Batteries?” Lithium-Sulfur
There seems to be a lot of research and development to go before they can have a producible battery. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.techtimes.com/amp/articles/271897/20220216/holy-grail-batteries-lithium-sulfur-power-cells-three-times-capacity.htm
2022-02-03 Tesla Cathode Plant At GF Texas
I had assumed that the Project Bobcat at GF Texas would be the cathode plant. There already have been steel beam deliveries for a building with the name cathode. But the article doesn’t say anything about that, but the map shows that it is in the same location. So this application may be for the
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2022-01-30 Panasonic To Make 4680 Cells In Japan
This article has important information about the problems that Panasonic has had at GF Nevada. They will take production of 4680 cells to Japan. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Panasonic-to-make-new-Tesla-batteries-in-Japan-after-U.S.-snag
