Neues solarbetriebenes Gerät extrahiert Lithium für Batterien und entsalzt gleichzeitig Meerwasser

The answer to the lithium crisis might just be a high-tech, “solar-powered seesaw” extractor.

According to the researchers at Zhejiang University in China, this new device maximizes lithium yield from seawater while simultaneously desalinating water.

“In this work, we report a solar-powered seesaw extractor to boost Li+ adsorption while minimizing scaling caused by competing ions during photothermal evaporation,” the researchers wrote in the study paper.

Lithium is the crucial element of the modern world. It powers the smartphone to the electric vehicle in your driveway. But there is a hurdle: the world’s accessible lithium is vanishing. Land-based mining is a slow, thirsty, and environmentally destructive process that can’t keep pace with the skyrocketing demand for green energy.