{"id":182332,"date":"2024-02-09T05:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T11:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-race-to-make-this-dying-u-s-lake-the-saudi-arabia-of-lithium"},"modified":"2024-02-09T05:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T11:22:27","slug":"the-race-to-make-this-dying-u-s-lake-the-saudi-arabia-of-lithium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-race-to-make-this-dying-u-s-lake-the-saudi-arabia-of-lithium","title":{"rendered":"The Race to Make This Dying U.S. Lake the \u2018Saudi Arabia of Lithium\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/video-api.wsj.com\/api-video\/player\/iframe.html?guid=F1FE5DF2-DC21-415E-A6F5-4460D25022CC&playerid=twittercard\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Extracting lithium from California\u2019s Salton Sea for use in batteries.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>California\u2019s toxic Salton Sea has enough lithium to make the U.S. self-sufficient in the mineral, which is a key component of rechargeable batteries. WSJ explores the tech being developed to extract it\u2014and what it means for the future of domestic production. Photo: Kaitlyn Wang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extracting lithium from California\u2019s Salton Sea for use in batteries. California\u2019s toxic Salton Sea has enough lithium to make the U.S. self-sufficient in the mineral, which is a key component of rechargeable batteries. WSJ explores the tech being developed to extract it\u2014and what it means for the future of domestic production. Photo: Kaitlyn Wang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182332","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\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}