The Most Sustainable Lithium Doesn’t Come from a Mine

The fastest way to cut emissions is through electrification. The cleanest way to power it is Lithium Harvest.

What If the Energy Transition Had a Missing Link?

And what if it wasn’t missing anymore?

The world is moving. Fast.

Wind turbines spin. Solar panels gleam. Electric cars whisper by in silence.
But behind the scenes, something isn’t adding up.

We still burn gas. Still pump oil.
And we still need more energy than ever before. Total demand is set to rise by ~25% by 2050.

Even in the boldest climate scenarios, oil and gas don’t vanish - they stay in the mix, supplying nearly half of global energy for decades to come.

That’s not failure.
That’s physics.
That’s demand.
That’s the reality of building up, not tearing down.

The Transition Isn’t a Trade. It’s an Addition.

The Transition Isn’t a Trade. It’s an Addition.
Electrification is the fastest path to lower emissions.
EVs, heat pumps, batteries, grid-scale storage - it’s happening everywhere.

And lithium-ion batteries are the backbone.

But here’s the paradox:
The energy transition still runs on dirty supply chains.
Lithium today is mostly mined the old way:

  • Giant evaporation ponds that take 14 years to build
  • Open-pit mines that consume up to 118,000 gallons of freshwater per ton
  • Long-distance shipping to centralized refineries
  • Carbon footprints that rival the emissions we’re trying to eliminate

We’re using 20th-century methods to solve a 21st-century problem.
Unless we fix the supply chain, the energy transition stalls.

Now, Picture This Instead.

A pipeline in North Dakota.
Steam rising from a geothermal plant in Alberta.

Below both lie a salty, mineral-rich waste stream - ignored for decades.
But in that brine?
There’s lithium.

Not theory. Not someday.
Real lithium, already flowing.

At Lithium Harvest, we don’t mine lithium.
We extract it from produced water and geothermal brines - at the source.

We co-locate modular plants at oil & gas and geothermal sites.
No new drilling. No evaporation ponds. No year-long delays.

Just smart engineering on infrastructure that already exists.

  • Online in 12–18 months
  • CapEx up to 73% lower
  • OpEx up to 48% lower
  • Up to 96,000 gallons of freshwater saved per ton of lithium
  • Up to 20,000 kg CO₂ saved per ton produced

It’s not just faster.
It’s smarter.

What One Project Can Save Every Year

At full run-rate, just one of our sites - Alberta - delivers massive environmental savings:

  • ~109,700 metric tons of CO₂ avoided annually: That’s like taking ~23,800 cars off the road, every year.
  • ~211 million ft² of land disturbance avoided: That’s the size of ~3,667 football fields left untouched.
  • ~517 million gallons of freshwater saved: That’s equal to ~18,117 Olympic swimming pools.

Now remember - that’s just one plant.

By 2036, we're targeting 51,800 tons of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) per year across multiple sites.
If scaled linearly, the cumulative impact looks like this:

  • >1 million tons of CO₂ avoided annually
  • >1 billion ft² of land left undisturbed
  • >2.5 billion gallons of freshwater saved every year

This isn’t marginal. This is systemic.
These aren’t projections. They’re built into our operating model.
Now scale it - and the impact compounds.

This Isn’t Just Lithium. It’s About Systemic Upside.

A model where legacy infrastructure fuels the future, not fights it.

Oil and gas infrastructure keeps throwing off stable cash flow.
We turn its waste into lithium.

And that lithium powers EVs, grid storage, and the next wave of electrification.

One value chain funds the other.
That’s the integrated upside.

Legacy energy assets become the foundation for clean-tech growth - 
Without abandoning the old. Without slowing down the new.

The future doesn’t need false binaries.
It needs bridges.

And That Changes Everything.

Because once you can produce battery-grade lithium without mining it…
You change the whole game.

And we’ve already done it.

EVs built with traditional lithium break even with ICE vehicles after ~11,300 km.
EVs built with our lithium?
Just 1,982 km.

That’s 5.7x sooner.
That’s the difference between greenwash and green reality.

This Isn’t Science Fiction. It’s Science, Commercialized.

We didn’t invent sustainability hype.

We engineered a real solution:

  • Patented adsorption-based DLE platform
  • 20+ years of industrial water treatment experience
  • End-to-end control from pre-treatment to refining
  • Fully integrated, modular, and ready to scale

We're not imagining a greener world.

We're building it.

Why It Matters Now

  • Global greenhouse gas emissions just hit an all-time high: 53.2 Gt CO₂eq
  • Power and transport make up 45% of global CO₂ emissions
  • EVs alone could prevent ~2.6 Gt CO₂ by 2035 - equal to taking millions of cars off the road
  • Electrifying transportation and expanding renewables are the fastest, most effective ways to cut emissions at scale
  • But none of it works without a clean, scalable lithium supply - available now, not decades from now

Traditional mining can’t deliver in time.
We can.

So… What If the Missing Link Was Already Flowing?

Not in 2035.
Not if the price is right.
Not if the permitting goes through.

Right now.
From pipes that already exist.
From waste no one thought to value.

From a process that turns liabilities into assets.
And emissions into opportunity.

Invest in What Completes the Picture

The future isn’t oil or renewables.
It’s and.

And it needs a better bridge - fast, local, low-carbon, and profitable.

The energy system is evolving - fast.

Invest in the solution that connects today’s infrastructure to tomorrow’s energy needs.

We’re not just extracting lithium. We’re building the bridge.

Let's Start the Conversation

  1. Sune Mathiesen

    Sune Mathiesen