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Pennsylvania’s Fracking Wastewater Contains a ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Critical Clean Energy Mineral Lithium (insideclimatenews.org)

submitted 5 months ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/environment@beehaw.org

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It's not all wine and roses in terms of requiring sustained fracking, which defeats the purpose of transitioning away from fossil fuels, but the estimate is there's enough lithium (as lithium carbonate) coming from these sites to cover 40% of domestic demand.

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[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 3 points 5 months ago

Lithium isn't clean. Its not at all necessary .