Thursday, August 3, 2017

      BOLIVIA'S  FOREMOST  EXPORT  IS NO LONGER  COCAINE

         CARAMBA, THAT'S A LOT OF  LITHIUM  BATTERIES

The Andean  nation has  started  production of  a  rather  more  respectable  white powder : lithium carbonate  from a  giant plant at the south end of the  sky-high  Salar Uyuni  which, witness  the  EOSAT  inset,  spans  more than  10,000 square  kilometers- large enough  to sustain a substantial  fraction of global  lithium production from its concentrated brines for the rest of the century.