LKE towards TOP-5, page-5953

Your logic is flawed across most of your points.
1) You / We / LKE are not pioneering DLE so no need to worry, we are merely improving commercial deployment of the process .
2) pond rotation of course enables input and output to be balanced, once the start up period has been completed. However Unless you have a crystal ball and are constantly digging more ponds, you can not scale up, to adapt to new demand. It is a long rigid supply chain that cannot react, not to mention the horrific wast of water and land. Whereas adding additional parallel containers to the DLE process requires less land, permits and time, I would assume Lilac, will be able to pump these out pretty quick, if not have them on stock, once the design has been optimised.
3) Reinjection in to aquifer , other than removal of lithium, all other “impurities” will remain at exactly the same concentrate PPM between extraction and reinjection, so no “expansion” or concentration of impurities. Due to no evaporation.