Lithium could soon be in Germany, won
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The great weakness of the E-car industry is the battery. Now there is hope for the industry is The important basic substance of Lithium could be recovered from the deep water of the upper Rhine Graben. A special role geothermal energy plays.
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Die German battery cells-factories of the automotive industry could be in a few years from the Import of the important raw material of Lithium are largely independent. According to information from the WORLD ON SUNDAY, several companies are currently examining a Lithium-production in Germany.
For the production of so-called Lithium-ion batteries-indispensable Material to be filtered, in combination with existing geothermal power plants from the deep water of the upper Rhine Graben.
According to information from the WORLD ON SUNDAY, the energy company EnBW is planning to expand a geothermal power plant in Bruchsal, North of Karlsruhe by means of an extraction plant for a Lithium-chloride. “In the laboratory has the right to work,” said project Manager Thomas Koelbel. “Now we try it with a demonstration plant.”
The pilot plant is also planned in Insheim
The production of commodities in countries such as Chile, Argentina, and Australia charged yet the CO2 footprint of electric mobility. By a Lithium-extraction as a by-product of geothermal energy, the metal in the future, CO2 could be produced-free.
A pilot plant, the company Vulcan Energy plans in cooperation with the energy company of the Pfalzwerke. The geothermal power station in Insheim by the end of this year is expanded accordingly. Where Vulcan wants to test how well the lithium hydroxide from the thermal water to filter out.
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