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

Baua Electric

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

Cars That Think

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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Rerouting Intention And Sensation In Paralyzed Patients

Cars That Think

Today I’m talking with Chad Bouton , who’s at the forefront of this electrifying field of research. Chad, welcome to the program, and can you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Chad Bouton: Yes, thanks so much, Eliza, for having me. And my name is Chad. So folks can reach, but they can’t open and use their hand.

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

Charged EVs

My co-founder Chad Vecitis, who’s now our VP of R&D, was a full-time professor at Harvard and actually developed this technology over 10 years ago. We actually use a combination of electricity with water filtration. We actually use a combination of electricity with water filtration. We started the company in 2017.

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A Cheapskate in Monterey

Baua Electric

There, I boarded an electric catamaran from Monterey Bay Eco Tours to troll the calm waters on a 90-minute cruise ($45). The winemaker Chad Silacci and two other family members worked the bar and the crowd. They also thrive in Elkhorn Slough , a coastal wetland preserve in Moss Landing, about 27 miles north of Monterey.

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

Green Car Congress

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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A Helicopter Will Try to Catch a Rocket Booster in Midair

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Right now, there are two companies taking payloads to orbit: SpaceX and Rocket Lab,” says Chad Anderson , CEO of Space Capital, a firm that funds space startups. You have to keep the booster out of the water,” says Anderson. “If Itu2019s timeu2026u2026.Launch Launch - Catch - Launch[link] — Peter Beck (@Peter Beck) 1649164380.