White House energy advisor John Podesta and a throng of other dignitaries attended a long-awaited ground-breaking on Friday for an innovative, $1.85 billion lithium extraction and geothermal power plant at the dusty southern edge of the Salton Sea. Construction is underway despite the threat of a lawsuit that could stall or stop it.

The Hell’s Kitchen 1 plant, the first of as many as seven that are planned atop a massive, underground lithium brine reserve by developer Controlled Thermal Resources, is billed by the company as the world’s first “fully integrated” lithium and renewable power production facility. By extracting boiling, mineral-rich brine from underground, the plant will create about 40 megawatts of steam power, then separate raw lithium out of the waste stream, and produce an expected 25,000 metric tons of commercial-grade lithium hydroxide each year. That’s enough for approximately 415,000 electric vehicle batteries.  



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