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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

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And then of course we use copper windings in the electric motors as well. And once we’ve got to about 10,000 parts per million, we can do the rest with industrial processes at reasonable cost. There’s the resources that go into exploration. There’s been an underinvestment in innovation in exploration for these mineral resources.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF). —James Frith, head of energy storage at BNEF.

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Researchers Finds Lake Tanganyika Has Experienced Unprecedented Warming Over Last Century

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As the lake gets warmer, we expect productivity to decline, and we expect that it will affect the [fishing] industry. Lake Tanganyika is bordered by Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia—four of the poorest countries in the world, according to the United Nations Human Development Index. Tierney, Marc T.

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