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HyIron opens direct reduction plant for green iron

Green Car Congress

The Lower Saxony Ministry of Environment is funding the construction of the plant with €3 million. In Namibia, we are currently setting up an industrial-scale production with the support of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK).

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Should the Cobalt for EVs Come From the Congo or the Seafloor?

Cars That Think

But the question of whether obtaining cobalt and other valuable metals from the ocean floor would help or hurt the environment overall is, in fact, quite complicated. At the business end is the robotic collector vehicle,” explains Jon Machin, head of offshore engineering at the Metals Company.

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