There may be a few issues they need to overcome before any of...

There may be a few issues they need to overcome before any of the lithium there finds it’s way into a battery.

“But there’s a hitch for California’s Lithium Valley: The technology to suck that precious lithium out of the boiling hot brine, which is highly corrosive and loaded with toxins like arsenic and lead, is unproven. That makes some locals nervous, who worry about being an “experimental zone” for the new industry. Experts say it could be many years before the region lives up to its potential as the greenest place to harvest the pricey metal that’s crucial to the country’s transition to electric vehicles.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2022/08/31/californias-lithium-rush-electric-vehicles-salton-sea/?sh=51f2c23c4f63#:~:text=The%20Salton%20Sea%20region%20has,been%20done%20before%20at%20scale.