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BMW Group to source lithium from Livent

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Now, the company is broadening its supplier base and additionally sourcing lithium from Argentina, where the raw material is obtained from brine from salt lakes. Livent employs an innovative method that emphasizes sustainable water use and minimizes the impact on local ecosystems and communities.

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Conservation group opposing Thacker Pass lithium mine seeks endangered status for Kings River pyrg (snail)

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Lithium Americas is focused on advancing the Cauchari-Olaroz and Pastos Grandes projects in Argentina and the Thacker Pass project in Nevada. On 25 February 2022, state approved the air quality permit, water pollution control permit and the reclamation permit for Thacker pass. Earlier post.). Thacker Pass. Background.

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Dark Matter Data Saved Via Parachute

Cars That Think

What saved the day was two data recovery systems (whose specs the researchers recently published ) that earlier in the day had already parachuted down to the Patagonia region of Argentina, rescuing more than 200 gigabytes of SuperBIT observations. It’s like streaming Netflix down from the edge of space.”

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Researchers Say Perennial Grain Crops Could Be Available in Two Decades, Call for Policy Commitment Similar to That Supporting Biofuels

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By contrast, annual grains can lose five times as much water as perennial crops and 35 times as much nitrate, a valuable plant nutrient that can migrate from fields to pollute drinking water and create dead zones in surface waters. It really depends on the breakthroughs.

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Debunking the Lithium "Mining" FUD

Plug In India

Social Media Lithium FUD When it comes to Lithium Mining, The FUD - Fear Uncertainty and Doubt propagated by Random Youtubers, WhatsApp university and Oil funded media is so easy to debunk, it’s not even funny. We at PluginIndia will clear all these misconceptions with facts and logic.

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Stanford, UC Santa Cruz study explores ramifications of demand-driven peak to conventional oil

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In contrast to arguments that peak conventional oil production is imminent due to physical resource scarcity, a team from Stanford University and UC Santa Cruz has examined the alternative possibility of reduced oil use due to improved efficiency and oil substitution.

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Nanjing team develops solar-powered electrolysis process for extraction of lithium from seawater

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Researchers from Nanjing University have developed a new method for the extraction of lithium metal from seawater using solar-powered electrolysis with a NASICON solid-state electrolyte as the selective membrane. Cl - or OH - is oxidized to Cl 2 or O 2 on the anode side, and part of the Cl 2 may further react with water to form hypochlorite.

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