As I read a lot of interesting articles online and found an intriguing one this morning, thought I’d create a topic to discuss them.
Please, serious articles only with no politics or deliberately provocative articles as I don’t want this to degenerate in a slanging match.
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In similar vein Covid vaccination may well cut all cause mortality
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Another VERY interesting article today.
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With the number of deep, disused tin mines in that area, a practical and cost effective geothermal solution would be enormous!
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Yes, I saw this this morning but only skimmed it as I’d read about this before when it was being proposed and then built. As a power production facility it’s pretty small, but the really interesting thing is the lithium extraction. Very high purity lithium carbonate can be produced from the extracted brine in a much easier and less process intensive way than traditional methods, and the amounts available from the granite layer are huge.
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I thought they were trying to wash lithium out of the water as well.
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Yes they are. The article does mention that and I would think it’s a lot more lucrative than the energy production. I think it’s essentially a happy by product and is probably been added because it’s economic to do so and creates another revenue stream whilst they get the lithium production online.
The irony about all the many waste tips from the tin and kaolin mining in Cornwall is that they contain huge amounts of lithium ores, which at the time were worthless. Although they have already effectively been extracted from the ground, the collection and extraction of the lithium could be problematic.
Another, more quirky article from the same source.
Was mentioned on Radio 4 this morning too.
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