Also, I think Ellon is bluffing, he maybe was smoking weed with his wife when someone presented him salt /lithium Plan.

 There is silver in sea water and some companies unsuccessfully tried to “mine” it from the sea water.  Musk did not have earth shuttering news about million miles battery so salt/Li extraction was easy attention grabber. Obviously no one believes him… Look at the SP today again… I hate to pay all these taxes one day to Uncle Sam … Not.