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S5E11 - Can Lithium Mining Astoundingly solve the Brine Riddle with Benefits?

S5E11 - Can Lithium Mining Astoundingly solve the Brine Riddle with Benefits?

From(don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World


S5E11 - Can Lithium Mining Astoundingly solve the Brine Riddle with Benefits?

From(don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

ratings:
Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Jun 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

with ?️ Benjamin Sparrow - CEO and Co-Founder at Saltworks Technologies
? Saltworks provides innovative products and solutions for industrial wastewater treatment and desalination.

What we covered:

? How we will need a lot more lithium to cover the World’s needs over the next decade – and how conventional sources might not be sufficient
? How a lot of money and investments flow to the battery production industry, and surprisingly much less to the lithium mining sector
? How industrial wastewater could actually be an incredible source of lithium – and how to mine it
?‍♂️ What DLE and CRC stand for – and why Direct Lithium Extraction and Concentrating, Refining, and Converting are a key to the future of Lithium-Ion batteries
? How Saltworks’ technology was first used by… NASA!
♻️  How Saltworks’ approach to Lithium Mining is an incredible example of circular economy done right
?️ How Saltworks’ adventure started in a garage – and how they may well be back in it for a stealth project
? How the company pivoted its original approach and what milestones they would have to reach before returning to it
?‍? How their technology can be summarized as a way to split columns in the periodic table of the elements
? How much of a hot Wall Street’s prospect Direct Lithium Extraction is right now (and what to think about it)
⛪ How the church of England may well be the most influential and surprising impact investor out there
? Striving out of the box, water and its compounds being on the industrial’s critical path, fostering the right team spirit, crossing the valley of death, caring and aiming for turbocharged solutions… and much more!
? … and of course, we concluded with the ????? ???? ????????? ?   
      
➡️ Come say hi to Benjamin on LinkedIn         
➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on Lithium Mining 
Released:
Jun 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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