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Stanford team develops sodium-ion battery with performance equivalent to Li-ion, but at much lower cost

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Stanford researchers have developed a sodium-ion battery (SIB) that can store the same amount of energy as a state-of-the-art lithium ion, at substantially lower cost. Thus, further research is required to find better sodium host materials. Thus, further research is required to find better sodium host materials.

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CO2-neutral hydrogen storage with a bicarbonate/formate system

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In addition to organic hydrogen storage materials such as methanol and methane, researchers have been interested in formic acid (HCO 2 H) and its salts, known as formates, for the generation of hydrogen. Bicarbonates are a component of many natural stones and are also commonly used as baking powder or sherbet (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 ).

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Debunking the Lithium "Mining" FUD

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Team PluginIndia The Lithium mining FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) created by some paid media organizations and random YouTube channels is so bad, that many people read headlines of such articles and assume that Lithium mining is the worst thing in the world and is worse than extracting and refining 10,000 liters of oil used by an average ICE car.

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LanzaTech Pulls in $18M in Series B Funding; Qiming Ventures Leads

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LanzaTech has been working with a number of organisms, including: Geobacter sulfurreducens , Clostridium autoethanogenum , Moorella thermoacetica , Clostridium ultunense , Clostridium ljungdahlii , Caldanaerobacter subterraneus subsp. Experimental data and in silico comparisons revealed a third mode of anaerobic homoacetogenic metabolism.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem

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There are real challenges with waste streams—they yield a lot of sulfuric acid and sodium sulfate, which will need to get landfilled. There’s a company in England that announced they’re going to build a hydrochemical processing facility that will produce around a hundred thousand tons of sodium sulfate annually as a byproduct.

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Researchers call for integration of materials sustainability into battery research; the need for in situ monitoring

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The size of these batteries (in comparison to those used for portable electronics) places severe pressure on materials resources. We need new storage technologies if more renewables are to be used on the electrical grid; similarly, the electrification of transport requires much cheaper and longer-lasting batteries.

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OSU smart membrane could enable new category of high-energy, high-power energy storage for EVs

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Comparison of commercially available electric vehicles driving range to recharge time (min) (for a full recharge), abbreviated as MPM (and for use akin to MPG). In RFBs, the reducing/oxidizing species are dissolved in aqueous or organic solvents and are pumped across an ion selective membrane. —Herya and Sundaresan.