This approach, where hot brine is used to generate electricity, and dissolved lithium salts are then separated from it, allows low-impact mining to be combined with renewable energy production.
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The Salton Sea is already halfway to being a Superfund site. May as well finish the job.
Ohh no, the ecology of our poor artificial lake we made by accident must be preserved at all costs./s
The Salton Sea is only at 4.4g per hundred gallons, meanwhile the north arm of the Great Salt Lake is over seven times saltier at 31.7, and Ethiopia is up to 43.3. Personally, i’m in favor of putting a desal plant on the canal and dumping the brine into the Salton Sea, let’s pump up that number and see how high we can get it before it’s economical to dry it for salt and take some of the load off of the Great Salt Lake. Like, are we really going to let Ethiopia beat us at the record for saltiest sea?