Webinar – Test Only

Geothermal Power and Lithium Production at the Salton Sea
Presenter: Jim Turner, Controlled Thermal Resources Director and Chief Operating Officer
An Informative Webinar of Regional Importance

The area around the Salton Sea, just one hour from Borrego Springs,  is the largest known source of lithium in North America.  The lithium is contained in super-heated geothermal water as much as 8000 feet below the surface with temperatures over 600 degrees, and it is all due to the Salton Trough, a pull-apart zone on the San Andreas Fault that puts water in contact with the earth’s heat at extreme depth. This same geothermal water has been producing electricity at the Salton Sea since the 1980’s; the water is pumped up to the surface, steam is created to turn power turbines, and the hot water is then pumped all the way back down to its source.

Activity at the sea is now on the cusp of shifting into high gear because of the lithium. Lithium is an essential ingredient in the electric future of the United States and the world, for electric vehicles, computers, solar power storage, batteries, and communication.  By extracting lithium from the water while it is on the surface it is estimated that the area can produce 600,000 tons of lithium per year at peak production along with enough geothermal power for 1.1 million homes.

ABDNHA is pleased to offer this informative webinar of regional and national importance presented by Jim Turner, one of the world’s leading experts in the development of combined geothermal power production and lithium extraction from the geothermal waters at the Salton Sea.

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