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Inside Tesla’s Lithium Clay Salt Extraction Process
On 22 September 2020, Tesla announced at its “Battery Day” a series of technical advancements it was working on that when combined, could reduce the cost of energy storage in its homemade lithium-ion batteries by over 50%. Some of those announcements were impressive, some were surprising, some were obvious, but some were received with shock by lithium-ion battery supply chain stakeholders.

January 27: Ethan Elkind, Law Professor at UC Berkeley
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 1 PM PST
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January 12: Dr. Thomas R. Benson, Lead Global Exploration Geologist, Lithium Americas Corporation
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 1 PM PST
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Kaur Leader of New Thermal Energy Group
The Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division (ESDR) announced the formation of the Thermal Energy Group earlier this month. ESDR now encompasses six groups spanning a diverse set of research areas ranging from energy conversion to grid integration, all of which are part of the Energy Technologies Area (ETA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The group will be led by Sumanjeet Kaur, who has guided and supported the group’s innovative research direction and growth over the last several years.

The lure of lithium gets serious
Power demand means we need new sources.

December 17 Roundtable: Powering a sustainable future through lithium extraction from unconventional sources
Join Berkeley Lab scientists on Thursday, December 17, 2020 at an AGU Roundtable discussion, “Powering a sustainable future through lithium extraction from unconventional sources”