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Calgary technology taps into Alberta’s ‘wasted’ lithium supply

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Calgary technology taps into Alberta’s ‘wasted’ lithium supply
A key mineral needed in most batteries is lithium and Alberta has plenty of it, but it's a notoriously difficult resource to access — at least until now. Sarah Offin has more on a new locally developed technology hoping to diversify Alberta’s energy industry.

A chemical engineer out of the University of Calgary is piloting what she says is a more efficient, cleaner lithium extraction process.

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Litus is using nanotechnology — materials manufactured locally at the atomic level — to absorb lithium from previously untapped sources.

That includes wastewater from geothermal and oil and gas processes, including in Alberta.

Check out the video at the top for more on this story.

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