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Startup offers EV firms greener graphite in alternative to China – ET Auto

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Graphjet plans to build a facility in Nevada and is talking to the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Defense. Synthetic graphite , which accounts for most of global production, is typically made from petroleum coke , in an expensive and carbon-intensive process. million metric tons by 2030. “The this month.

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Opinion: Could A Lithium Shortage De-Rail The Electric Car Boom?

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We have all heard about Tesla’s Nevada facility that will at full capacity produce enough batteries to power 500,000 electric cars per year by 2020. there is already one gigafactory—Tesla’s, in Nevada—operating. Brine-based lithium production in the country is concentrated in one place only, at least for now, and this place is Nevada.

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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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Gas chromatography comparison of Conoco fuel and a Conoco-CoolPlanet blend. At each successive processing stage, the biomass is heated to a higher temperature profile and the material is compacted to a thinner layer with an increasing level of elemental carbon in the remaining biomass. Source: Cool Planet. Click to enlarge.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem

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Pyrometallurgy, which traditionally doesn’t recover carbon or lithium, seems likely to be phased out. The company is building a new plant in Nevada, and aims to be processing 10,000 tons of black mass (equivalent to about 150,000 EV battery packs) annually by 2025. The output consists of those critical battery minerals and metals.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem – Charged EVs

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Pyrometallurgy, which traditionally doesn’t recover carbon or lithium, seems likely to be phased out. The company is building a new plant in Nevada, and aims to be processing 10,000 tons of black mass (equivalent to about 150,000 EV battery packs) annually by 2025. The output consists of those critical battery minerals and metals.

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DOE Selects 8 Projects to Advance Technologies for the Co-Production of Power and Hydrogen, Fuels or Chemicals from Coal-Biomass Feedstocks

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GTI, in partnership with Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, both in Reno, Nev.; Princeton will design, simulate, and analyze 20 process configurations to enable meaningful cross-configuration comparisons and insights into the potential impacts of advanced technologies. Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Ill.)

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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How about using a competition sailplane for comparison, instead? She is an avid runner and hiker, having grown up camping most summers in the Sierra Nevada. From renewable energy policy to carbon markets to dubious eco-advertising, our energy and environment reporters track the high-stakes pursuit of a greener globe.

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