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Opinon: Lithium Market Set To Explode; All Eyes Are On Nevada

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While other commodities are floundering or completely collapsing in this market, lithium—the critical mineral in the emerging battery gigafactory war—is poised to explode, and going forward Nevada is emerging as the front line in this pending American lithium boom. Albemarle Corp.

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Tesla sponsors bilingual ‘Future of Energy’ exhibit at Terry Lee Wells Children’s Discovery Museum

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Tesla sponsored a bilingual energy exhibit, Future of Energy, at the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery). The exhibit featured questions and answers from Tesla employees working at Gigafactory Nevada and focused on a future with clean energy and sustainability. Anyone can be a part of it, right here in Nevada.”

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DOE finalizes $1.6B loan guarantee for BrightSource Energy Inc.

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will be located on federally-owned land in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California, near the Nevada border, and will be one of the world’s largest concentrated solar power complexes. The US Department of Energy (DOE) finalized $1.6 The Recovery Act funded project, sponsored by BrightSource Energy, Inc.,

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem

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Pyrometallurgy, which traditionally doesn’t recover carbon or lithium, seems likely to be phased out. The company is building a new plant in Nevada, and aims to be processing 10,000 tons of black mass (equivalent to about 150,000 EV battery packs) annually by 2025. The output consists of those critical battery minerals and metals.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem – Charged EVs

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Pyrometallurgy, which traditionally doesn’t recover carbon or lithium, seems likely to be phased out. The company is building a new plant in Nevada, and aims to be processing 10,000 tons of black mass (equivalent to about 150,000 EV battery packs) annually by 2025. The output consists of those critical battery minerals and metals.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County, Nevada: $3,000,000. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Capital District Transportation Authority, New York: $3,520,000.

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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

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However, building more coal and gas power plants to make miles for transport is counter-productive if the game plan is to reduce carbon output. An acre of desert in Arizona, Nevada and many other places on earth sees on the order of 3,000 hours of direct sun per year. Buffett has not only seen the light but invested heavily therein.

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