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A lake hides a treasure worth 540 billion euros – where is the deposit that changes the facts?

A lake hides a treasure worth 540 billion euros – where is the deposit that changes the facts?

There is a veritable gold mine at the bottom of a lake, and it appears to be capable of producing millions of electric cars.

Batteries for more than 382 million electric cars It seems that it can be produced from Lithium Which was hidden underneath marine salton lake, It is the largest body of water in California.

The value of the identified lithium deposits is approx 540 billion euros As it seems, anything is possible Changing energy balances, Allowing the United States to form industry leading force, Leaving behind the currently powerful China.

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It is noted that the lake was formed by A Water flow from the Colorado River the 1905. But, without an outlet, for decades the lake was a field of agricultural runoff from neighboring farms that led to an explosion of disease, while in the last two decades it has begun to dry up, among other things, due to rising temperatures.

A third of the lake’s water has disappeared, exposing 100 square kilometers of polluted sediments and toxic dust, and the lake’s water is twice as salty as the Pacific Ocean.

But they are hiding in this toxic lake Large amounts of lithium (About 3,400 kilotons), California Governor Gavin Newsom described the lake as the “Saudi Arabia Lithium Kingdom.”

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It is noted that lithium forms The main axis of the global energy transition Because it constitutes – among other things – The main component of lithium-ion batteries, That is, the most important and most expensive component of electric cars.

With electric vehicles increasingly assuming a leading role in automobiles events, the Requests For lithium it has launch, With investments in the specified metal constantly increasing.

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