In-depth — and hopeful — news on Salton Sea and lithium was good to see

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Drilling for lithium and geothermal has begun at the Salton Sea in an area known for geothermal energy production near Niland, Calif., on Nov. 3, 2021.
Drilling for lithium and geothermal has begun at the Salton Sea in an area known for geothermal energy production near Niland, Calif., on Nov. 3, 2021.

Thanks for in-depth — and hopeful — news on Salton Sea

Re: Three players in race to harvest lithium near the Salton Sea (front page, May 15):

This is the second fine article I have read in The Desert Sun on the Salton Sea's potential to expand not only pollutant-low thermal energy, but lithium as well.

Introducing the major three players more in depth was not only helpful, but inspiring.

This project sounds like a great one for private investment. Suddenly all eyes are upon the Imperial Valley.

That "Hell's Kitchen" Salton Sea may turn into a Cinderella story, having the "foot" that fits the silver slipper of battery requirements. This is the kind of story that should attract subscribers from areas nowhere near the Imperial Valley.

As a member of the Pasadena Area League of Women Voters' Natural Resource Committee, I look for this kind of news to spread awareness of major developments beyond our own San Gabriel Valley. Keep up the reporting. This story is up there with COVID, elections and teen suicide.

Julie Parker, Altadena

Blinded by loyalty to ‘King Donald’

The fantasy world inhabited by Trump supporters and their revisionist history is on full display in the May 16 letter about “the MAGA king.” The writer expresses fealty to King Donald, choosing servitude within his kingdom of lies.

The writer laments the passing of the monarchy because things were apparently so much better. This is the deceit that the king would have his subjects believe while they paid taxes and he did not.

She writes that there was better border security (children in cages unmentioned); victims’ rights respected (ask the families of Ahmaud Arbery and those shot by Kyle Rittenhouse); and meritocracy (notwithstanding the king’s daughter and son-in-law ensconced in the West Wing). She furthers the the mystique surrounding the Trump economic record — unremarkable at best (3% GDP growth in 2018) and catastrophic at worst (negative 3.5% in 2020).

Let’s not forget the king’s chaotic and deadly response to the “plague.”

The House impeached King Donald twice, once for extorting the Ukraine government and once for inciting an insurrection. He is a deposed king refusing to accept the will of the people.

Fortunately, Americans prefer a democracy to a monarchy and facts over fictions. We once fought a revolution over that.

Bill Wylie, Palm Springs

This article originally appeared on Palm Springs Desert Sun: Glad to read hopeful news on Salton Sea and lithium