Lithium fuels hopes for revival on California's largest lake
A sign is posted at the end of a road leading to the Salton Sea in Desert Shores, Calif., on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. Demand for electric vehicles has shifted investments into high gear to extract lithium from geothermal wastewater around the shrinking body of water. The ultralight metal is critical to rechargeable batteries. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press)
CALIPATRIA, Calif. (AP) — Near Southern California's dying Salton Sea, a canopy next to a geothermal power plant covers large vats of salty water left behind after super-hot liquid is drilled from deep underground to run steam turbines. The vats connect to tubes that spit out what looks like dishwater, but it's lithium, a critical component of rechargeable batteries and the newest hope for economic revival in the depressed region...
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