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U Florida team using fungi to extract cobalt and lithium from waste batteries

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A team of researchers University of South Florida is using naturally occurring fungi to drive an environmentally friendly recycling process to extract cobalt and lithium from tons of waste batteries. are using three strains of fungi: Aspergillus niger , Penicillium simplicissimum and Penicillium chrysogenum.

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Debunking the "Electric Cars are evil due to Cobalt" argument!

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Cobalt FUD Yes, Cobalt Mining is bad for the environment and bad for the people who live near these mines. [1] According to Oil Change International (OCI), the two most widely known cases by the oil industry are when they committed genocide in the Niger Delta just to get the people off the land, so that they can extract the petroleum.

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U Alberta study shows for the first time that sunlight causes chemical reactions in road dust; singlet oxygen

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Researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) have shown for the first time that road dust is photochemically active; i.e., sunlight causes chemical reactions in the dust. It acts as an oxidant in the environment and can cause or influence other chemical reactions. —Sarah Styler, corresponding author.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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As director of technology integration at Lockheed Martin , in Grand Prairie, Texas, he leads a team that is actively pursuing breakthroughs designed to, among other things, allow life-saving missions to be performed in hazardous environments without putting humans at risk. They didn’t remain mysterious for long. And everything changed.

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