Another source of lithium-bearing brine is very common and widely dispersed around the drier but populated parts of the world - desalination plants. The day may come when most desal plants have a DLE plant attached.

iam excited. invested in Allkem and Cleantech Lithium and Lake Resources. looking forward to the future.

Watching this video made me realize how much I need this watch in my collection. It's absolutely stunning!

What happens to all the metals that are classed as "impurities" in this process? Hopefully they are isolating and using those as well.

Nice summary of the challenges facing lithium supply

Lilac and their partner Lake Resources just extended their time to production by 3-4 years, when everyone thought they were at the cusp of production in the near future 23/24. Very disappointing. DLE does not appear to be easy. Each location is site and chemical specific and requires and carries a varying volume of challenges.

Why don't they use "closed loop" brine systems? Instead of using ponds, just pump the brine through solar-heated pipe networks, raising its temperature near to boiling, then dumped into a "finishing vat" that boils off the remaining water and thoroughly dries the lithium, just like the ponds do. They can even capture the steam and re-condense it to send back for more lithium. This is similar to how sugar is made.

It's good to know this. I hope they will solve the other problems of lithium especially the low useful life and the e-waste problem.

Great! I was just thinking we need more patents and monopolies!

LITHIUM IS A FOSSIL FUEL. OIL IS A MINERAL. IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW ITS MINED, IT STILL ISN’T GREEN.

What about MOFs, I remember hearing about it basically being a mebrane that functions like a filter seperating the lithium out if the brine.

Another expensive white powder. Demand is high, good to see new ideas on supply.

Great video as usual

I'll stick with my Llama for my daily commute. it only takes grass and water!

As EVs are gaining popularity the tech is evolving quickly. So today's Lithium-Ion is LIKELY NOT the end of innovation in regards to Energy Storage (i.e. batteries or fuel). Wow lithium batteries have provided remarkable improvements over lead and nickel cadmium products, the lithium battery technologies still have limitations. First off they do have safety concerns in regards to fires, they are extremely heavy, the charging is slow and the storage is still not at par with the energy density of petroleum products. Energy density is the key. Most products are moved by truck in Western society and a large truck simply cannot be equipped with lithium batteries due to the weight that you would have to add. For every pound of weight the battery adds to the vehicle that is a pound less of supplies the vehicle can transport. To give you a example on how much weight these batteries add to a vehicle a Tesla sedan weighs approximately 800 more pounds curb weight than a gasoline powered Ford F-150 truck! A tractor-trailer that has the power to pull a typical 18-wheel rig outfitted with batteries for the same range as the diesel tanks on a typical rig would add an additional 15-30k pounds (8-12k kilograms) .. 😮 With the breakthroughs of graphene and sodium ion batteries and the revolution of fuel cells powered with hydrogen, we will continue to see the evolution of the electric power and storage of energy for vehicles. The energy density is key. If a sodium ion battery for a hydrogen powered fuel cell power plant can we 50 percent less than a lithium battery system it would be a game-changer and really take electrification of vehicles to the next level. I'm no petroleum Fanboy or an anti lithium battery dude I'm just providing some additional information and pointing out the fact that things change technology evolves and nothing stays the same.

Good overview - they should have included Vulcan Energy (ASX:VUL) in this video as an interesting Geothermal / Sorption-type lithium extracting "DLE" company. Although it was there between the lines I wish they explained more that "DLE" is a misleading/blanket term since there are many types of "DLE" and the "DLE" is only one part of the overall process. Also, there is no such thing as going from brine straight to Lithium product through some magic technique.... many processes before and after the supposed "DLE" in the flow sheet. The overall process needs to be looked at. One of the great features of geothermal and some features specific to Vulcan are.... Heated brine assist the sorption and other processes due to brine already being hot - that is a lot of energy for free. They will also generate electricity for their own use and excess electricity sold - geothermal works day and night. Also provides efficient heating to the surrounding commercial/residential areas. Final conversion of LiCl to Lithium with eletrolysis.... no further reagents needed. Bonus is that they will not be operating in a water scarse area and will produce an end product close to customers. No shipping intermediate or raw materials all over the place for further processing and conversion, limited reagents, no fossil fuels.

Very good succinct and informative

Maybe we shouldn’t be waiting for innovations like this to reduce carbon emissions and instead make walkable cities where people don’t need cars to get around.

Lithium carbonate for lithium IRON batteries. Lithium Hydroxide, expensive , for high performance lithium ION batteries, NCM/NCA. Most EV batteries, at least entry level cars, lithium Iron batteries. Less toxic, cheaper, more cycles and full use of battery, 0-100%. Lithium Iron easier to recycle but less energy dense/little heavier but rare fires.

🙏🙏🙏wait and see it shall all change

Standard Lithium Ltd. has petitioned the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission to make a royalty payment determination to mineral right owners/land owners for Li products produced by their Pilot Plant with Lanxess tail brine in South Arkansas. Their petition requests the continuing operation of this Plant with sales of the completed Li product. This could be an important development indicating the validity of their processes and chances of commercial development, as I see it.

Brings to mind the old adage necessity is the mother of invention

Hope it brings down the price of evs for the end consumer, i'd never spend more than 20k on a car if i live where there's viable public transport.

Very beautiful video thank you❤❤❤

Thank you for making this!

Thanks for sharing

I support lithium extraction from salts. However I believe the opportunity to extract water by evaporation at the same time should be taken.

Soft plastics food packaging is the future for car batteries.

Lithium is everywhere, it's the most plentiful element on the planet.

Strange there was no mention of that company building a plant in Corpus Christi? Oh... Wait!

Does Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) reduce the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere? Is it carbon negative?

The first Sodium batteries release (or released already?) this year. There is 1,000 times more Sodium than Lithium. Also, Sodium batteries don't catch fire as easily. Wouldn't it be wiser to go with Sodium?

Sodium ion and solid state batteries are expected to take over from Lithium within a decade.

Perhaps, just perhaps there’s chances for better. Honesty and kindness.

Great report

DLE , why are none of the billion dollar lithium companies doing it at scale?? probably because it doesn't work

Give it up guys. Lithium is yesterday's technology. The Japanese have solid state batteries, and the Chinese have sodium salt batteries, both better than Lithium.

All my Li stocks crached this July. 😂🎉

Has anyone done any studies on if it would make sense to put these facilities directly on the same stream as desalination plants as the brine is more concentrated and could potentially have a larger lithium extraction? If so then Southern California, Israel, and the middle east are going to be lithium giants. 10:52

LithiumBank Resources. 4m acres of brine. 2 distric scale. 3 smaller. Unmatched holdings

The clip ended up by saying that the industry is not betting in DLE. Most of supplies will cime from hard rock and evaporation. How do you justify the video's title then?

I didn't get the chemical and energy parts ie. requirements of these DLE projects. Now faster extraction ultimately means faster exhaustion of the resource.

Great overview

they left out recycling - see Redwood ind. how about using what is injected back into the ground?

@ 0:45 I smell supply and demand for lithium. Sounds like opportunities in the lithium stocks!

CNBC

I wonder which companies would buy the lithium ore. I know a US company mining in Africa for Lithium ore and are stock piling to sell to a processing plant. I'm not sure if there are USA buyers for lithium ore or if it all goes to China to be processed.

Fascinating stuff… lithium and its applications for health and batteries. There needs to be explicit consent for giving and extracting. It’s fascinating, I thought about going back to law school, I ran into a law student from FSU, he said… it depends on whys you want to do with your law degree… International accountability for business and health in a number of fronts. It’s amazing how integrally connected many of these issues really are.

How much lithium is in the brine that comes from desalination compared to underground brine.

What if my massive potash mine produces so much brine I can't figure out what to do with I and I pump it into a disposal well?

There wasn't enough oil for all the new cars 100 years ago and yet somehow we came up with enough. This will be easier than that.

Very interesting. Looks like lithium is far from finished.

Afghanistan have the largest mine of lithium metal, We need investment company for this in cheap price.

The breakthrough could be better supply of Lithium or new types of batteries that use no Lithium or very small amounts.

What about mineral accretion through electrolysis.

In 10 years seems like they won’t need nearly as much lithium ev sales has already plummeted

Good video.

Recycled batteries as lithium source was ignored completely?

I love CNBC

Let’s go E3!!!!!!!

Let's go! ⚡️

i didnt hear the cost of dle vs traditional methods

Will these extractions push Lithium price down & make miners less profitable?

Hard rock is soooooo much simpler, WA is going to be huge!

did this tech become obsolete with the disclosure of the huge lithium discovery in nevada ?

THERE'S (A LOT OF LITHIUM) IN SAN JACINTO NEAR GOLD BASE. THAT'S NEAR HEMET,CALIFORNIA.

0:09 I fail to see how using the sun to do most of the work can be "inefficient". And the space argument does not seam strong either since it is done in a desert. The water argument is more valuable, however the water is not spoiled by the process, just evaporated, so the "ecology disruptive" argument could have been developed. I would like to know how much energy the "new" processes need to operated, and how carbonated is the energy used, and also is the water is "cleaned" after the process or at least re-used. Most of the arguments seam to come from new players, so probably biased, I would have like to hear an academic point of view. Regarding the need of 20 times more lithium, maybe a better solution would be to switch from ICE cars to electric public transportation without batteries (trains, metros, tramways, trolley-buses, etc.), to bicycles and to "walkable cities". With EVs just for people you definitively need cars. And not trucks and SUVs with more than 100 kWh, but efficient sedans with 50 to 60 kWh batteries. It is possible to go everywhere in Europe (and I assume in the US) with a 55 kWh Tesla model 3, so why would we need more kWh per car ? We need to put the money in the infrastructure, with fast charging between cities and low power charging everywhere cars are parked. I may be wrong, but I would have like this video to explain me why, for now I am just convinced that more people try to make more money.

What the EV industry is betting on is a Sodium battery that can replace the Li ones. Sodium is much easier to get and table-salt is practically everywhere, not to mention super cheap.

Perfect fit to the fracking industry it seems ^^.

Demands remaining, this will be supplemental in supply not a replacement for lithiun ore mining.

Maybe make the batteries serviceable? Don't make them so inaccessible like elon?

Excellent report. Good job challenging all the wildly optimistic statements from the big players. However, the narrator would benefit from a few lessons from a voice coach.

Ford and GM adopt the NACS connector as standard, death to the CCS connector!!!

sodium batteries

Brine is not inefficient, DLE is projected to cost more and really only saves you time on that first year of evaporation. Brine evaporation is ecologically friendly, it’s controversy is based in politics and ignorance.

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While DLE technology has the potential to be more environmentally friendly and efficient than traditional methods of lithium extraction, there are some potential drawbacks to consider. One drawback is that the selective membrane used in DLE technology can be expensive and may need to be replaced frequently. Additionally, the brine used in DLE technology can contain impurities that can clog or damage the membrane, reducing its effectiveness. Another potential drawback is that DLE technology is not currently as well-established or widely used as traditional methods of lithium extraction. This means that more research and development may be needed to optimize the technology and increase its scalability and cost-effectiveness. Finally, the disposal of extracted brine and other waste materials can also be a potential drawback of DLE technology. If not properly handled, this waste could potentially have negative environmental impacts. Overall, while DLE technology has the potential to be a more sustainable and efficient method of lithium extraction, it's important to consider and address any potential drawbacks in order to ensure that its implementation is as environmentally responsible as possible. Thankyou !

why they dont use evap water is a question.

Why tesla did not invest any of these companies?

Let’s go lithium

1:02 product placement hihi

Wonder what the carbon footprint is of all the machines and transportation it takes to make batteries

Just as Sodium Ion based battery technology hits the commercial market...

What about the pour kids mining cobalt

nice

dang this is only happening because of big business. Wish we could just use the lithium for electric public transportation instead of mass produced automobiles that are material demand heavy

Slipping in the stock prices on these lithium companies seems mor e like an ad than news.

Hydrogen is the ultimate power source

Standard lithium bouncing back.

How can seawater or desalination brine streams be added to the mix? Further, are salt lakes being considered, as well?

Just dump money into sodium research to save the water and pollution.

We our cheese brain use this to melt our snow her in Wisconsin😂

4:00 this looks like stock footage of “two chemists agreeing”

Very good 👍🏻👍🏻

I have zero water lithium refining system, dry system. My system requires no electricity costs, wow my new lithium battery technology crushes these companies. Lol, a ceramic material sheds a proton, to grab the lithium and then a chloride grabs the lithium off the ceramic surface, ready for manufacturer use. 3 materials come to mind, my system is still better.

Did you know that in the Republic of the Congo they have one of the largest Lithium mines in the world owned by China. To mine these minerals they use 40 thousand child slave laborers. Slavery is a common practice in Africa still and children suffer the most. So next time your riding around in your EV thinking your better then everyone else cause your "doing your part to save the planet from climate change," think of the poor child that helped get the minerals under harsh conditions to build your "green energy" car. By the way, did you see where the police used an EV charger to find a criminal? They tracked all the EV chargers in that city and found that EV being charged and went and arrested the lady.

Invest into companies like RecycLiCo who have a proven and patented process that recycles lithium at a 99.99% rate. No water waste, and creates an upcycled product that can be immediately used in batteries

E3 in Alberta Canada has their DLE pilot up and running making lithium from the brine in actual real well conditions.

Mining companies should have to give a percentage of their revenues to a government fund used to promote recycling

One more reason to focus on hydrogen fuel cell technology. EV’s can’t scale to present ICE numbers.