OPINION - California's lithium lake shows how America could survive without Europe — and that’s a big problem for us
by Jack Kessler
Feb 23, 2024
3 minutes
It is the sort of discovery that never seems to occur in Lincolnshire. Recently, it was revealed that a toxic, shrinking lake in southern California has even more lithium dissolved deep beneath its surface than previously thought. Enough, in fact, to produce the equivalent of nearly 400 million electric vehicle batteries. For context, there are roughly 285 million registered cars and lorries in the United States.
If Australia is the lucky country, then is surely the blessed superpower. Washington may still be mourning the
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