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PNNL, Moselle to advance using magnetic nanoparticles to capture lithium, cesium from brines

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Currently, the global supply chain for these elements relies heavily on dated extraction processes that are energy-intensive, consume a lot of water, and create toxic waste. And this will take out more than half the cost. Lithium, nickel, cobalt and rare earth elements are in high—and rapidly increasing—demand.

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Redwood Materials receives conditional commitment for $2B DOE loan for battery materials campus project

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Together, these components amount to nearly 80% of the materials cost of a lithium-ion battery. Redwood Materials’ Nevada operation currently recycles end-of-life batteries from consumer electronics such as cell phone batteries, laptop computers, power tools, and other electronic waste.

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Biodiesel From Feather Meal

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Scientists in Nevada are reporting development of a new and environmentally friendly process for producing biodiesel fuel from chicken feather meal, made from the 11 billion pounds of poultry industry waste that accumulate annually in the United States alone. Schematic representation of biodiesel production from poultry waste.

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ISU Researchers Develop Novel Supercritical Process to Create High-Value Chemicals from Biomass

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Conventional acid hydrolysis methods have also suffered from the high cost of building corrosion resistant plants, acid recovery, and generation of chemical wastes. Trahanovsky said the research team is still working to develop and improve the conversion technology.

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3 winners of DOE’s “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” Challenge: hydrogen-assisted lean-burn engines, graphene for Li-air and -sulfur batteries, and titanium process

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IPAT , a startup company based in Nevada, Iowa, is using gas atomization technology developed at Ames Laboratory to make titanium powder with processes that are ten times more efficient than traditional powder-making methods—significantly lowering the cost of the powder to manufacturers.

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Tesla seeking 56% cut in $/kWh, $25K EV in three years through manufacturing and design innovations

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Gigafactory Nevada currently has a capacity of about 0.15 The curve of the cost per kWh of batteries is not improving fast enough. Viewed another way, from a smaller footprint than Giga Nevada, Tesla could get many times the cell output. Tesla has two battery-related goals, Musk said. Tera is the new Giga.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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Conventional large-scale gasto-liquid reactors produce waste-heat, reducing the energy. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste. areas to convert otherwise wasted gas into usable chemicals that. If successful, the new crop would have a lower cost of. Turbo-POx For Ultra Low-Cost Gasoline. Nevada Las.

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