This video is a teach-in with Alex Grant, investigating Tesla's Lithium Clay. Alex’s focus is decarbonizing the battery supply chain and he’s one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy. He’s a principal at Jade Cove Partners, Technology Innovation Advisor at Zelandez, Lithium LCA Partner an Minviro, and was previously VP of Technology at Lilac Solutions.

I discovered Alex earlier this year when I was learning about mining and he wrote a great article after Battery Day on the methods that can be used to extract Lithium from Clay with Salt. I contacted him ahead of writing my script on Tesla’s lithium extraction process and he offered to do a teach-in to get me up to scratch in a recorded interview.

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Timeline
0:00 Introduction
0:59 Types of Li Resources
4:39 Clay Deposits
7:57 Mining’s Relationship with Nature
13:44 From Resource to Refined Li
21:07 Salt + Clay Extraction Process
28:35 Interlayer Exchange
31:17 Li Concentration by Resource
35:54 Inverse Hofmann-Klemen
37:52 Refining the Extract
41:25 Innovators Dilemma

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Intro Music by Dyalla: Homer Said