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Scheyder: DLE is not universal; each brine requires tailored technology
“DLE is not a magic bullet. Just because somebody cracks the code somewhere does not necessarily mean that it's going to work elsewhere, because each brine is different.”
Scheyder: Republicans view critical minerals as national security, Democrats as climate
“I think Republicans and Democrats look at the critical minerals issue with the same end goal in mind, but they sort of take two different paths to get there. Republicans tend to look at this issue from a national security lens. Democrats tend to try to look at…”
Scheyder: Critical mineral mining relies more on industrial policy than oil
“I think increasingly what Washington does or doesn't do is going to have a huge effect on this industry in a way that the oil industry or the natural gas industry is not necessarily affected by industrial policy.”
Scheyder: Spodumene yields lithium hydroxide more easily than brine
“One of them is because it's easier to make lithium hydroxide from spodumene produced lithium than it is from brine. There's an extra step needed if you were to take lithium from brine and then to turn it from lithium carbonate into lithium hydroxide.”