{"id":64272,"title":"🔋 Maverick BioMetals extracts lithium with microbes!","tagline":"We extract lithium better than traditional extraction tech for hard rock assets. ","body":"TLDR; we use a custom microbe and enzyme to extract lithium from rock at low energy and high recovery rates while producing no waste. \n\nHi, we’re Eric and Jesse. We’re passionate about using biology to solve tough problems and reducing the environmental impact of industry (and saving our customers money along the way).\n\n---\n\n---\n\n### **The Problem**\n\n**Traditional lithium extraction is energy intensive, inefficient and produces tons of waste.**\n\n### **OUR SOLUTION: LITHx**\n\n**We’ve developed a synthetic enzyme that completely solubilizes hard rock ores and extract ALL the metals.** \n\nThis happens at low temperatures, so we don’t use much energy. \n\n### ","slug":"Gie-maverick-biometals-extracts-lithium-with-microbes","created_at":"2022-07-01T18:31:29.103Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T00:22:47.153Z","total_vote_count":23,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gie-maverick-biometals-extracts-lithium-with-microbes","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":26807,"name":"MaverickX","slug":"maverickx","url":"https://www.MaverickX.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/863f997124ddcf68b9b2129609f950b6485be63f.png","batch":"Summer 2022","industry":"Industrials","tags":["Energy"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/26807"}}