{"id":1468839,"date":"2024-06-01T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1468839"},"modified":"2024-06-01T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T03:15:00","slug":"trumps-coal-country-could-supply-nation-with-40-of-lithium-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/trumps-coal-country-could-supply-nation-with-40-of-lithium-demand\/1468839\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s ‘Coal Country’ Could Supply Nation With 40% Of Lithium Demand\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump’s ‘Coal Country’ Could Supply Nation With 40% Of Lithium Demand\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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America’s transition to a decarbonized economy demands massive base metals and rare Earth minerals.\u00a0Currently, China dominates the rare Earth mineral market. However,\u00a0initiatives are already underway by the US federal government to sever\u00a0reliance on the Chicoms and boost domestic mining and refining abilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One unlikely area where 40% of the nation’s lithium supply could be sourced from is ‘Trump’s coal country,’ otherwise known as good ole’\u00a0Appalachia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Justin Mackey, a research scientist at the National Energy Technology Laboratory and PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh,\u00a0wastewater from oil\/gas rigs across the\u00a0Marcellus Shale formation could supply the nation with 40% of its lithium needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“This is lithium concentrations that already exist at the surface in some capacity in Pennsylvania, and we found that there was sufficient lithium in the waters to supply somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of the current US national demand,”\u00a0Mackey told CBS News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mackey said there are\u00a0lithium mining operations in the US. But he told local media outlet Pittwire<\/a>,\u00a0“This is different.\u00a0This is a waste stream, and we’re looking at a beneficial use of that waste.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said finding lithium in\u00a0water recycled in hydraulic fracking wasn’t difficult, adding,\u00a0“If you can extract value out of materials, and specifically lithium from this, then you reduce the cost of remediating and handling this waste.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The researcher said\u00a0future wastewater extractions of lithium from oil\/gas rigs in\u00a0neighboring states, such as\u00a0West Virginia, Western Maryland, and Ohio, could spark an “economic boom for the region.”<\/p>\n

Trump country has been economically decimated over the last several decades amid de-industrial trends. Death and despair, along with big pharma, helped ignite an opioid and pill epidemic that has killed tens of thousands, if not more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Could Trump’s coal country be primed for revitalization trends and capitalize off decarbonizing trends? If so, then the land across the region could become increasingly more valuable over the coming decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 06\/01\/2024 – 19:15<\/span><\/p>\n

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Trump’s ‘Coal Country’ Could Supply Nation With 40% Of Lithium Demand\u00a0 America’s transition to a decarbonized economy demands massive base metals and rare Earth minerals.\u00a0Currently,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1468840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1468840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}