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DeepGreen lifecycle analysis argues for sourcing EV battery materials from deep-sea polymetallic nodules

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94% less stored carbon at risk. 100% reduction in solid waste. Ocean nodules are a unique resource to consider at a time when society urgently needs a good solution for supplying new virgin metals for the green transition. 90% reduction in SO x and NO x emissions. 94% less land use. 93% less wildlife at risk.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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Fats and greases and inedible oils are opportunity feedstocks, but the US supply of fats and greases is probably on the order of less than 10 million barrels, closer to 1-2 million barrels on an annual basis. Challenges for the upgrading of pyrolysis oil include contiguous carbon chain. That’s a big sum. Earlier post.).

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Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

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The supply of metals like cobalt, copper, lithium, and nickel needed for batteries is already shaky , and soaring demand for the hundreds of millions of batteries in the coming decades is likely to trigger shortage and high prices. "We China processes about 80 percent of battery raw materials, creating a chokehold on global supplies.

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