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Utah-based Energy Fuels to enter commercial rare earth business in Q1-2021

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REEs are the building-blocks of a wide array of clean energy and advanced technologies, including wind turbines, electric vehicles, cell phones, computers, flat panel displays, advanced optics, catalysts, medicine, and national defense applications. —Mark S. Chalmers, President and CEO of Energy Fuels.

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University of Utah engineers develop fast method to convert algae to biocrude

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The Utah team created a new mixing extractor, a reactor that shoots jets of solvent at jets of algae, creating a localized turbulence in which the lipids “jump” a short distance into the stream of solvent. Our designs ensure you don’t have to expend all that energy in drying the algae and are much more rapid than competing technologies.

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Watch Rivian R1S defy gravity and logic with incredible climb in Moab, Utah

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Electric automaker Rivian is still working toward the first deliveries of its vehicles, but testing is going extremely well. This fact is evident in a recent video posted by company CEO RJ Scaringe, who is in Moab, Utah, with the all-electric SUV, which is displaying some incredible scaling capabilities up Moab’s steep rock formations.

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Open Your Eyes: Battery Electric Cars, Bikes, Tools, & Toys Everywhere — Life In An All-Electric Future (Part 1)

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My wife and I spend 5 months of the summer in Northern Wisconsin and the winter months in Northern Utah and in Saint George in Southern Utah. Teslas are multiplying like rabbits here in Northern Utah. […]. I don’t live in California where the sales of BEVs are over 15% of the market for new vehicles.

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Utah Transits Authority adding 5 battery-electric New Flyer buses to fleet

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UTA and the University of Utah received a $5.4-million million Low-No grant from the US Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to purchase five New Flyer battery-electric buses. Three of these will be used on route 2 in Salt Lake City and two that will serve the University of Utah campus (also in Salt Lake City). Earlier post.)

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Utah, Minnesota team discover highly conductive oxide-based materials; STO/NTO offer “different road to power electronics”

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not conductive at all. Today, electronics manufacturers use gallium nitride for transistors in power supplies and other electronics that carry large electrical currents. Because there is less power wasted (wasted electricity usually dissipates into heat), these devices will not run as hot as before, says Sensale-Rodriguez.

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Ionic Mineral Technologies launches nano-silicon product for Li-ion cell manufacturers

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This is a drop-in solution for lithium-ion batteries that delivers high energy density and fast charging capabilities, making it suited for use in electric vehicles (EVs) and other applications requiring high-performance batteries. Earlier post.) million metric tons of synthetic graphite. million metric tons of synthetic graphite.

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