[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I call B.S. on this.

There's no a priori reason to believe that it won't be economic, to extract lithium from the seas, and from Afghanistan.

It seems like just yesterday that the "usual suspects" were crying "peak lithium". There were FReerepublic threads on the topic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358999/posts

My conclusion: if free markets are allowed to operate, there will be no "peak lithium"; and lithium will be extracted from both the land and sea.

[epithermal]

I agree it is too soon to say about any of this because markets will decide. I know from some dated research I did last year that lithium is expensive to produce from sea water, but there was some new research being done on it. You may be interested to read material here on lithium: The Trouble with Lithium