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Ensorcia to invest €200M to build lithium hydroxide conversion plant in Europe

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Chile-based Ensorcia Metals , a specialist in the extraction and transformation of high purity lithium, will invest €200 million to build a lithium hydroxide conversion plant in Europe. Ensorcia uses IBAT ’s modular, mobile DLE (Direct Lithium Extraction) technology.

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HIF Global, Porsche and Volkswagen Group unveil new direct air capture unit to be installed at eFuels plant in Chile in 2024

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At the IAA Summit in Munich, HIF Global, together with Porsche AG, Volkswagen Group Innovation and MAN Energy Solutions, announced the development and installation of a Direct Air Capture (DAC) unit at the HIF Haru Oni Demonstration facility in southern Chile in 2024. Earlier post.) This is then made into synthetic fuel.

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IBC demonstrates highly selective high-yield direct lithium extraction from Salar de Maricunga brine

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IBC Advanced Technologies, a developer of highly selective separations products, engineered systems and processes based on Molecular Recognition Technology, announced Phase One results of the Direct Lithium to Product (DLP) pilot plant currently operating at Salar de Maricunga, Chile. Complete recycling of process water. Water is conserved.

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Exploring Ghana, With Contemporary Art as a Guide

Baua Electric

We saw pink fish, gleaming airplanes and chile peppers. Although it was between exhibitions, the door was open, and we were invited inside to look around the building and at the upcoming installation. Toddlers crawled around in the shadow of Mr. Mahama’s installations. We zipped over to SCCA first, a soaring, open space.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

Credit the EV’s advantage to its greater efficiency in the conversion of chemical energy to motion—77 percent, compared with 12 to 30 percent for a gasoline car—along with the potential to generate electricity using low-carbon sources. vehicle-to-grid technologies that exploit the installed base of EV batteries.