Verification register Energy, Climate, Space & Materials
Current reading
Readiness band and full integer triple
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
Readiness band
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Primary summary from verified readiness
- Confidence
- 66% · stale
- Computed at
- 2026-08-20T10:52:54.561728+00:00
- Claimed
- 58
- Reported
- 53
- Verified
- 45
- Gap
- +13
Public ambition and stated capability
Observed practitioner reporting
Independently supported evidence
Claimed leads verified
Evidence strength Strong
Decision
What the current evidence supports
Human editorial judgment · 2026-08-20
Wait for stronger evidence
- Why
- Major federal backing and a binding Ford offtake signal strong pull, but the process is unproven at commercial scale, has already slipped, and faces hard Salton Sea brine chemistry.
- Next
- Watch for the 2026 trial-operations campaign to confirm ILiAD recovery/purity at commercial throughput and for the DOE conditional loan to reach financial close before treating domestic geothermal-brine lithium as bankable.
Constraints
Blockers
No named blocker is present in the current public projection.
Evidence summary
Derived counts
AI-assisted assembly
- Total
- 9
- Tier 1
- 0
- Tier 2
- 5
- Tier 3
- 4
- Supports
- 5
- Contradicts
- 4
- Context
- 0
- Latest observed
- 2025-01-31
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Publication record
Revisions
Initial public reading
- 2026-07-19 Reading moved from watch to watch.