GW Engineering Team Wins $500,000 Department of Energy Award for Green Lithium Extraction
The team's technology is chemical-free, when an electric current is applied to geothermal brine, ions—including not just lithium, but abundant elements like sodium and calcium—are attracted to the electrode material, which retains only the lithium and discards the rest.
The DOE award will allow Liu and his team to continue refining their technology, to scale up their prototypes and perhaps to begin pilot testing at California’s Salton Sea.
