{"id":146465,"date":"2022-09-15T17:26:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T22:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/lithium-mining-just-became-a-water-sport"},"modified":"2022-09-15T17:26:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T22:26:34","slug":"lithium-mining-just-became-a-water-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/lithium-mining-just-became-a-water-sport","title":{"rendered":"Lithium mining just became a water sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lithium-mining-just-became-a-water-sport3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, in Saudi Arabia, says they already have a solution in the works: before land-based lithium runs out, shift lithium mining to the ocean. The team claims they\u2019ve created an affordable method for extracting lithium from the seawater, potentially unlocking a practically infinite supply of lithium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge: <\/strong>Land-based lithium mining is incredibly damaging to the environment, and it wastes huge amounts of water \u2014 up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenmatters.com\/p\/fracking-vs-lithium-mining\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">500,000<\/a> gallons of water per ton of lithium extracted.<\/p>\n<p>Seawater contains 5,000 times the amount of lithium found on land, but only in very low concentrations, which has made previous attempts to extract lithium from the ocean ineffective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, in Saudi Arabia, says they already have a solution in the works: before land-based lithium runs out, shift lithium mining to the ocean. The team claims they\u2019ve created an affordable method for extracting lithium from the seawater, potentially unlocking a practically infinite supply [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146465","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}