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

Green Car Congress

Olivine is a CO 2 -reactive waste product that can be returned as tailings after capture carbon from the air. Travertine will launch a transformative process that integrates strong acid treatment of mining waste or tailings with electrolytic acid recycling. University of Nevada, Reno. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. Analysts are sanguine about this kind of thing becoming more common — someday.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Finally, in a first-of-its-kind partnership in the United States, Mitsubishi announced a strategic alliance with Oregon to develop an electric car charging infrastructure in the state. To deal with this major special waste problem has to my knowledge never ever been brought to the attention of the readers of any paper around the world.

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