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Tesla supplier Piedmont Lithium gets key North Carolina mining permit – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The go-ahead for the 500-foot-deep mine comes despite widespread opposition from neighbors worried about water, noise pollution and other potential problems. Phillips on Sunday had phoned Chad Brown, chair of the county board of commissioners, to discuss the state’s decision and ask for a meeting.

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images. John Snow's 1854 Broad Street map of cholera contagion in London was not only instrumental in identifying lessons learned—the most important being that cholera was transmitted via the water supply—but also in improving policymaking during the crisis.

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Nth Cycle says its electroextraction tech significantly reduces transportation costs for Li-ion battery recycling

Charged EVs

My co-founder Chad Vecitis, who’s now our VP of R&D, was a full-time professor at Harvard and actually developed this technology over 10 years ago. We actually use a combination of electricity with water filtration. We actually use a combination of electricity with water filtration. We started the company in 2017.

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Yissum offering novel high-performance anode for sodium-ion batteries; antimony sulphide nanoparticle-coated graphene

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Research on the anode was sponsored by Singapore’s National Research Foundation, under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programs in Electromobility and Nanomaterials for energy and water management, in addition to the Israel-Strategic Alternative Energy Foundation. Prikhodchenko, Chad W.

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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The adsorbed water allows detection by neutrons. In this article, the penetrating power of neutrons facilitated unique characterization of aircraft parts fabricated using additive manufacturing, imaging internal structures and passageways and mapping residual strains in a complex turbine blade. Simmons, B., and Singh, S.