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Tesla supplier Piedmont Lithium gets key North Carolina mining permit – ET Auto

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The go-ahead for the 500-foot-deep mine comes despite widespread opposition from neighbors worried about water, noise pollution and other potential problems. Phillips on Sunday had phoned Chad Brown, chair of the county board of commissioners, to discuss the state’s decision and ask for a meeting.

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Nth Cycle says its electroextraction tech significantly reduces transportation costs for Li-ion battery recycling

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Increasing the efficiency of recycling offers a way to “close the loop,” creating a circular supply chain that can provide the needed raw materials for batteries and other components and minimizing the need to expand the world’s mining operations. We actually use a combination of electricity with water filtration.

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images. John Snow's 1854 Broad Street map of cholera contagion in London was not only instrumental in identifying lessons learned—the most important being that cholera was transmitted via the water supply—but also in improving policymaking during the crisis.

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A Cheapskate in Monterey

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It’s hard to find that gritty romance along today’s Cannery Row , which boomed in the 1930s and ’40s, before overfishing killed supply. There, I boarded an electric catamaran from Monterey Bay Eco Tours to troll the calm waters on a 90-minute cruise ($45). Now chains such as Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.

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ORNL team recommends focus on isostatic pressing for solid-state battery manufacturing

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This process uses fluids and gases such as water, oil or argon inside a machine to apply consistent pressure across a battery component, creating a highly uniform material. In an open-access focus review paper for ACS Energy Letters , ORNL researchers recommend attention be given to the little-studied isostatic pressing approach. 2c01936

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Push for new US lithium mine leaves some Americans wary – ET Auto

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billion project to produce battery grade lithium for US electric vehicle (EV) supply chains — one of only a few such sites in the country. Biden’s aims include furthering the energy transition and lowering dependence on China, which supplies the bulk of global lithium-ion battery exports.

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Yissum offering novel high-performance anode for sodium-ion batteries; antimony sulphide nanoparticle-coated graphene

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Sodium-ion batteries (Na-ion, NIBs) are seen as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries for large-scale applications due to their lower cost and abundant supply of sodium. Prikhodchenko, Chad W. However, low capacity and poor rate capability of existing anodes have been major obstacles to the commercialization of NIBs. Yu, Petr V.

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