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Bruchsal (dpa / lsw) - The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the energy company EnBW want to filter lithium, which is important for batteries, from the deep water in the Upper Rhine Graben.
To do this, they have developed a method with which the element is to be extracted from the water in the Bruchsal geothermal plant during the ongoing process.
A pilot plant is being planned.
According to calculations, the amount of lithium achieved could be sufficient for around 20,000 car batteries with around 8,000 operating hours per year.
That is only a small part of the volume required.
The main suppliers for lithium are Australia and countries in South America.
The “Unlimited” project (“Investigations into lithium production from hot deep water in Germany”) costs around 3.4 million euros, of which the Federal Ministry of Economics is providing 2.7 million euros.
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