{"id":142943,"date":"2022-07-27T05:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T10:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/emerging-technology-could-help-extract-lithium-from-new-sources"},"modified":"2022-07-27T05:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T10:02:31","slug":"emerging-technology-could-help-extract-lithium-from-new-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/emerging-technology-could-help-extract-lithium-from-new-sources","title":{"rendered":"Emerging technology could help extract lithium from new sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/emerging-technology-could-help-extract-lithium-from-new-sources2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As more drivers adopt plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles, the demand for lithium-ion batteries will continue to explode over the next decade. But processes for extracting lithium can be time-consuming and chemical-intensive, and traditional sources\u2014including brine and hard rock\u2014could ultimately be depleted.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists and engineers are now looking to unconventional <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/water\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water<\/a> sources, including oil-and gas-produced water, geothermal brines, and rejected brines from seawater desalination. But how much lithium lies within these sources, and how to best extract it, remains an open question.<\/p>\n<p>Asst. Prof. Chong Liu\u2019s team now has the answer. By analyzing more than 122,000 unconventional water sources, she and her team discovered that there is, in fact, enough lithium within these sources to make it worthwhile to extract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As more drivers adopt plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles, the demand for lithium-ion batteries will continue to explode over the next decade. But processes for extracting lithium can be time-consuming and chemical-intensive, and traditional sources\u2014including brine and hard rock\u2014could ultimately be depleted. Scientists and engineers are now looking to unconventional water sources, including oil-and gas-produced [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}