Thanks
@GCar and
@triage
triage - I did mention that I assume that James Bay may possibly end up supplying the Li chemicals for the Toyota North Carolina battery plant in one of my posts :
https://hotcopper.com.au/posts/58131023/single
The expected timeline to production also stack up ... James Bay start of production in 2024 and Toyota plant in 2025.
Agree that hydroxide has a very short "shelf-life" ( was it 30 days if I recall ? ) and degrades when exposed for a prolonged period of time to air / atmosphere. Hence, they have to be in a tightly sealed bag, but even then, moisture penetrates it.
Galaxy, even prior to the merger with Orocobre, was already in talks ( don't know who ) about a conversion facility in the North American region as per what Simon Hay mentioned months ago.
Now we need to calculate the output of James Bay in LCE terms ( don't have it at the top of my head, but I am sure I read it somewhere ) and what are the assumed output of the Toyota plant.
Side track :
Speaking of lithium hydroxide, I did not realise until a few years ago ( chemistry was one of my weakest points even when I was in school long time ago ... possibly because it was mostly 90% theory versus 10% practical / lab ) that NASA also uses lithium hydroxide to remove CO2 from the air in the space station since decades ago :
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/the-air-up-there-making-space-breathable/#:~:text=Lithium hydroxide is an attractive,heat produced by the reaction.
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/519347main_AP_ST_CO2Removal_Therm.pdf
2 LiOH(s) + CO
2(g) → Li
2CO
3(s) + H
2O(g)
Granted that these are just in canisters and low volume, but interesting nonetheless.
