{"id":231049,"date":"2026-02-10T21:09:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-sun-powered-device-extracts-lithium-while-desalinating-seawater"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:09:46","slug":"new-sun-powered-device-extracts-lithium-while-desalinating-seawater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-sun-powered-device-extracts-lithium-while-desalinating-seawater","title":{"rendered":"New sun-powered device extracts lithium while desalinating seawater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FOOMGCdVYso?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The world needs lithium at higher rates than ever before. But our current methods of getting it are breaking the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The answer to the lithium crisis might just be a high-tech, \u201csolar-powered seesaw\u201d extractor.<\/p>\n<p>According to the researchers at Zhejiang University in China, this new device maximizes lithium yield from seawater while simultaneously desalinating water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world needs lithium at higher rates than ever before. But our current methods of getting it are breaking the planet. The answer to the lithium crisis might just be a high-tech, \u201csolar-powered seesaw\u201d extractor. According to the researchers at Zhejiang University in China, this new device maximizes lithium yield from seawater while simultaneously desalinating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231049","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}