Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jan Panteltje Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Fracking wastewater has 40% of US need for lithium Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 14:49:37 GMT Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 14:49:38 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="1098718"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: NewsFleX-1.5.7.5 (Linux-5.15.32-v7l+) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bIcp3QBv38wPvQv5ER1vZxZKuVA= X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBwDAEBMCVSngxjuD3H6F3fiDoMDjM6VQs02ZVlvjkVXPalnxxo02nZrq00hbJmKfdZOjzPFcif5dHFyc= X-Newsreader-location: NewsFleX-1.5.7.5 (c) 'LIGHTSPEED' off line news reader for the Linux platform NewsFleX homepage: http://www.panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/ and ftp download ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/news/readers/ Bytes: 3136 Lines: 40 On a sunny day (Fri, 31 May 2024 13:42:26 +0200) it happened Jeroen Belleman wrote in : >On 5/31/24 13:08, Jan Panteltje wrote: >> On a sunny day (Fri, 31 May 2024 11:08:27 +0200) it happened Jeroen Belleman >> wrote in : >> >>> On 5/31/24 07:23, Jan Panteltje wrote: >>>> Fracking wastewater has 'shocking' amount of clean-energy mineral lithium >>>> 40% of US need for lithium could be covered by Pennsylvania's fracking byproduct. >>>> https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/fracking-wastewater-has-shocking-amount-of-clean-energy-mineral-lithium/ >>>> >>>> >>> >>> I'd think that extracting Li at a few hundred ppm concentration levels >>>from a complex mixture is likely to be expensive. >> >> Seems it already has been done. >> The greens already complain too: >> https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29052024/pennsylvania-fracking-wastewater-lithium/ >> >> quote: >> So far there is one Pennsylvania company, Eureka Resources in Lycoming County, >> working on lithium extraction from produced water. >> In 2023, the company announced it had successfully extracted “97 percent pure lithium carbonate” >> from wastewater and plans to incorporate the process at its three Pennsylvania facilities >> within the next two years. >> > >Yes, I saw that, but there are no details about the process, the >composition of the raw feedstock and wastes, or the cost. I guess >they only did this in a chemistry lab with small samples, not >really representative of an industrial process. > >The Li concentration of raw feedstock from Chili is five times >higher, and its composition is much simpler, making processing >much cheaper. OK, I am no chemist so... maybe somebody here knows? Google found one company, but not much on the 'how'.