Bolivia pins hopes on lithium, electric vehicles
March 1, 2009 By FRANK BAJAK and CARLOS VALDEZ , Associated Press Writers
Piles of salt lay on the salt flats of Uyuni, Bolivia where the population has harvested salt for years, Tuesday, Jan 27, 2009. Underneath the salt lies the world's largest lithium reserves. A showdown is brewing as multinationals are lured by the reserves but face a cold reception from the Evo Morales government known for nationalizing industry. Lithium is the key component for electronics batteries and electric car batteries. (AP Photo/Noah Friedman Rudovsky)
(AP) -- To Bolivia's president, it's the great silvery-white hope. Lithium, the lightest metal. Half the density of water. Used in cell phone, laptop and iPod batteries, and in the years to come, many thousands of electric and hybrid vehicles propelling humanity into a cleaner energy future.
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Plenty of talk from MDI but no independent verification. Independent experments with small CAES storage systems suggest terrible energy density(less than lead-acid batteries), terrible efficiency unless compression and expansion is done adiabitically or in many stages.