Breakthrough in the search for sustainable source of lithium

A Yorkshire company has made a major breakthrough to find a new source of lithium used in electric vehicle batteries.

With global lithium reserves predicted to be exhausted in less than 20 years, Aqualithium, based on the Nostell Estate near Wakefield, working with the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath, has succeeded in extracting lithium from seawater in a laboratory environment.

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