Renewable: Lithium promises revival for dying California inland sea
Hollywood's jetset once crowded the shores of the Salton Sea, a then-idyllic southern California playground for the wealthy. Today, it is desolate and depressed - the evaporating water leaving behind dead shellfish, dust and chemicals that irritate the airways. But also lithium. The increasingly valuable metal, whose supply is concentrated in a few global pockets, is vital for the recha