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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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First, an electric potential will be applied to water to simultaneously produce acidity and alkalinity. Olivine is a CO 2 -reactive waste product that can be returned as tailings after capture carbon from the air. Re-Mining Red Mud Waste for CO 2 Capture and Storage and Critical Element Recovery (RMCCS-CER) ($1,000,000).

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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

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ARPA-E’s ARID program will fund transformative new power plant cooling technologies that enable high thermal-to-electric energy conversion efficiency with zero net water dissipation to the atmosphere. ARID AWARDS. Lead organization. Description. Advanced Cooling Technologies. Applied Research Associates. Applied Research Associates, Inc.

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Tesla seeking 56% cut in $/kWh, $25K EV in three years through manufacturing and design innovations

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Rapidly scaling global battery manufacturing capacity, Musk pointed out, is absolutely central to achieving large-scale electrification and climate goals. Gigafactory Nevada currently has a capacity of about 0.15 Viewed another way, from a smaller footprint than Giga Nevada, Tesla could get many times the cell output.

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Is Elon Musk Back In “Production Hell” With Tesla’s 4680 Battery?

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Each jelly-roll cell packs in more active battery material, and less wasted space in metal casing. One Springpower invention , described by Musk and Baglino at Battery Day, uses recirculation to skip the step of treating contaminated water in cathode production—up to 4,000 gallons of effluent for every ton of cathode material.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. While utilities such as E.ON

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

To deal with this major special waste problem has to my knowledge never ever been brought to the attention of the readers of any paper around the world. Batteries are highly special toxic waste and cannot be dropped on the average dump site, so who is going to pay to get rid of this problem? — Kaare Nilsen 2. In the U.S.

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