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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Harvard University. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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SDSU-led project to design bacteria that extract rare earth elements in DARPA EMBER project

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REEs are relatively abundant in mine tailings, the waste products of some metal ores, such as aluminum. The researchers have teamed up with a startup company, Phoenix Tailings, to test and refine the recovery process. The team will then modify the bacteria to produce the metal-binding proteins on the surface of their cells, said Love.

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ARPA-E to award $10M to third SEED cohort

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Awards may support exploratory research to establish viability, proof-of-concept demonstration for new energy technology, and/or modeling and simulation efforts to guide development for new energy technologies. The ARPA-E IONICS program developed highly conductive, chemically stable anion exchange membranes that are now commercially produced.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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Credit: GM) General Motors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. No, if you look at the picture it actually has 6 wheels but drives on 2 to waste energy. by galeso April 10, 2009 9:38 AM PDT jsargent, thanks I would have missed the wasted energy argument.

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