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Heaps of Power Saturday, December 11, 2010 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> General Technology   
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The salt piles at Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, could shape the future of fuel. Beneath the salt lies a solution of brine that contains about half the world's reserves of lithium, or enough to make batteries for more than 4.8 billion electric cars. The first automobiles that use lithium-ion batteries are just coming onto the market now, but these light, powerful batteries already have fueled an electronic revolution. (source: news.nationalgeographic.com)
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