The groundbreaking for this facility is finally this week after being in the works for over a decade. Apparently will supply 50 MW of geothermal power to a nearby utility while saving enough energy for its own operation to generate 25000 metric tons of LiOH annually.
At 1 kg LiOH = 1.5 kg LCE and 1.5 kg LCE = 1 kWh, 60 kWh = 1EV, that’s >400k EV/y worth of Li coming from this site alone. Pretty good for a US site where extraction has minimal impact environmentally and has a side benefit of 50 MW of clean energy too!
edit: for reference, in all of CA, there’s currently about 675MW of geothermal generated. This is basically a step change – although a drop in the bucket of the 40-45 GW that CA demands.
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The groundbreaking for this facility is finally this week after being in the works for over a decade. Apparently will supply 50 MW of geothermal power to a nearby utility while saving enough energy for its own operation to generate 25000 metric tons of LiOH annually.
At 1 kg LiOH = 1.5 kg LCE and 1.5 kg LCE = 1 kWh, 60 kWh = 1EV, that’s >400k EV/y worth of Li coming from this site alone. Pretty good for a US site where extraction has minimal impact environmentally and has a side benefit of 50 MW of clean energy too!
edit: for reference, in all of CA, there’s currently about 675MW of geothermal generated. This is basically a step change – although a drop in the bucket of the 40-45 GW that CA demands.
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