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Resource report concludes Galvanic’s lithium prospect among most prolific in North America

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Oklahoma-based Galvanic Energy is a geoscience-driven resource exploration company that employs innovative, proprietary discovery methods to identify natural resources essential to the US renewable energy sector.

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The US’s largest battery-grade lithium refinery will be in Oklahoma

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Stardust Power , a lithium refiner supplying the EV sector, is going to build the US’s largest battery-grade lithium refinery in Oklahoma. Connecticut-based Stardust Power said it selected Muskogee because of the state’s central US location for delivery and shipment.

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Infrastructure Bill Could Usher In New Era for EVs

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That’s why the institute and its associated power companies have pledged to join the effort. Can the federal government, states, power companies and others work together to build a network virtually from scratch? Galvanic has assembled a 100,000-acre lithium brine prospect in the Smackover Formation of southern Arkansas.

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Galvanic, IBAT testing proves Smackover brine is DLE compatible

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I’ve written here in the past about my company’s Smackover prospect in southwest Arkansas. But innovative approaches to exploration and production of natural resources can drive our nation forward in our efforts to build American EVs powered by American lithium while protecting our environment for future generations.

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Lux: future use of wide bandgap materials in power electronics will reduce EV cost

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Power savings in plug-in vehicles versus total savings per car. Using wide bandgap (WBG) materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN)s for power electronics can improve efficiency and thereby reduce the high cost of battery packs, according to a new report from Lux Research. Source: Lux. Click to enlarge.

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USDA providing $9.6M to create 9,000 acres of BCAP project areas for non-food energy crop production

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million for the creation of two new Biomass Crop Assistance Program ( BCAP ) project areas in New York and North Carolina, and the expansion of an already established BCAP project area in Arkansas. REPREVE Renewables, based in Georgia, also is the sponsor of the project’s accompanying environmental assessment.

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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CIRCUITS project teams will accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters, based on wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors. If successful, the team will construct a 500 kW building block for a DC fast charger that is at least four times the power density of todays installed units.

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