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Deep-sea battery metal developer DeepGreen going public with SPAC to become $2.9B (equity value) The Metals Company

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Rising raw materials prices risk undermining EV manufacturers’ efforts to drive down the cost of EV batteries necessary for mass adoption; and. This is generating the world’s largest industrial waste stream and gigatons of emissions, poisoning ecosystems and people’s health, and driving potential labor exploitation including child labor.

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

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UOP is moving faster commercially on the Green Diesel side, with the Diamond Green project with Darling International and Valero Energy nearly complete. Really the question is can the feedstocks be procured at a price competitive to petroleum oil. Green Diesel. Earlier post.) Lowering hydrogen costs would thus lower production costs.

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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. Some companies want to harvest metallic treasures from the sea.

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