Here's a cut and paste for you and our friend HugoWhich...

Here's a cut and paste for you and our friend Hugo

Which technology for DLE will win is still unclear. There is as yet “no clear winner in terms of what customers want and what the technology can provide,” she says. But all the DLE separation technologies being piloted now are already used for other purposes, says Goldman Sachs analyst Hugo Nicolaci, and that should speed up commercialization. “Expect the first real wave of DLE projects from later in the decade.”This article appears in the January 2024 print issue as “Lithium Extraction Gets Faster and Maybe Greener, Too.”Update: 6 Dec. 2023: The story was updated to correct the name and spelling of CleanTech Lithium and to clarify further aspects of the direct lithium extraction process
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