A startup company called Simbol Materials is in the final stages of raising funds for a factory that would open in 2017 - the same year as Tesla's world's largest battery plant.
Simbol's California plant - which breaks ground this summer - would be the first to create lithium by extracting it from geothermal power plant waste. The company is partnering with geothermal power producers in a mecca for that kind of energy - Southern California's Imperial Valley.
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