Will Stringfellow (EESA) spoke with the BBC about Berkeley Lab’s work to advance technologies for extracting lithium from unconventional resources. Stringfellow said that the area around California’s Salton Sea, which has been dubbed “lithium valley,” is like a new gold rush. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201124-how-geothermal-lithium-could-revolutionise-green-energy