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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. In 2012, Estonia mined 15.86 Different that shale oil—i.e.,

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Skeleton Technologies receives US patent for nanoporous carbon powder supercapacitor material; higher energy and power densities and lower cost

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2011

Skeleton Technologies , an energy-storage start-up located in Tartu, Estonia, was recently awarded a US patent ( #7,803,345 ) on its nanoporous carbon powder supercapacitor material. According to a new report from Pike Research, worldwide sales of ultracapacitors will grow tenfold from just $28.2 million in 2011 to $284.1

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Molycorp purchases remaining shares of European rare earth processing company

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Molycorp now owns 100% of the Sillamäe, Estonia-based facility, known as Molycorp Sillamäe. Molycorp, Inc. has purchased the remaining shares of Molycorp Silmet AS, one of only two rare earth processing companies in Europe. On 1 April 2011, Molycorp purchased a 90.023% stake in AS Silmet in a transaction valued at approximately $89 million.

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Neo Performance Materials to acquire exploration license for rare earth element project in Greenland

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AUGUST 26, 2022

The project hosts a mineral deposit that is enriched in neodymium and praseodymium, two essential elements for rare earth permanent magnets used in electric vehicles, wind turbines, and high-efficiency electric motors and pumps that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Sarfartoq carbonatite drill cores.

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Green Hydrogen To Be Featured In World’s First Nationwide “Hydrogen Valley”

CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 26, 2024

A forthcoming hybrid battery and fuel cell electric ferry is among the initial projects aimed at kickstarting a new green hydrogen industry in Estonia. The post Green Hydrogen To Be Featured In World’s First Nationwide “Hydrogen Valley” appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Molycorp to increase supply of rare earth materials to Hitachi Metals; the two call off US joint venture plans

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2011

Rare earth materials and permanent magnets are utilized in a wide range of products, but are critical enablers for many clean energy technologies such as hybrid and electric-drive vehicles, wind turbines, and lighting as well as for consumer electronics, IT and communications systems, and defense systems.

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Can a New Power Link Boost the EU’s Energy Independence?

Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2025

Azerbaijans Pivot From Oil to Solar and Wind Of the six countries that make up the Caucasus region, Azerbaijan boasts the largest potential for generating exportable renewable energy for Europe, a fact that presents some measure of irony. Three more solar and wind plants , totaling 1 GW, are also under development.

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UP Catalyst offering carbon-negative graphite for European battery supply chain

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

UP Catalyst , an Estonia-based company developing a method to produce sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite from CO 2 ( earlier post ), says that it can produce carbon-negative graphite, consuming 3.7 The process is powered by either wind, solar or hydro energy resulting in a carbon negative production line.

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Neo Performance Materials and Energy Fuels launching US-European rare earth production initiative

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MARCH 8, 2021

Under an agreement in principle, subject to completion of definitive agreements, Colorado-based Energy Fuels will process natural monazite sands into an RE Carbonate beginning in March or April 2021 and ship a portion of that production to Neo’s rare earth separations facility in Sillamäe, Estonia (Silmet).

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EU NELLI project delivers new generation solid-oxide fuel cell; efficient and lower cost

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AUGUST 30, 2017

In an SOFC electrolysis system, fuel cells convert excess power from renewable generation to turn water into hydrogen, addressing intermittency and storage issues for wind and solar. Companies and research organisations from Estonia, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and the UK were involved. NELLHI received €1.6 million (US$1.9

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Road Rally Review: Driving a Volkswagen ID. Buzz for 5,000 miles through Europe

The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

We started near Hamburg, Germany and drove through Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and back through the finish line in Hamburg 16 days later. While driving with the front windows down, there was significant wind buffeting when at highway speeds. This setup allowed us to use the van as a camper.

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Rolls-Royce consortium secures funding for mini nuclear reactors

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AUGUST 7, 2021

To do this it must be affordable, reliable and investable and the way we manufacture and assemble our power station brings down its cost to be comparable with offshore wind at around £50 per megawatt-hour. “As billion per unit dropping to £1.8 billion by the time five have been completed Operate for at least 60 years.

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Inside an American Rare-Earth Boomtown

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2024

These are the magnets that go into nearly all motors for electric vehicles and into climate-control systems, appliances, and tools, into the generators used in wind turbines, and into the hundreds of millions of headphones and loudspeakers sold each year.

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Credit Suisse Predicts Renewable Energy That Is “Too Cheap To Meter” By 2025

CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Credit Suisse says the Inflation Reduction Act will have such a tremendous impact on renewable energy that the US may see the levelized cost of electricity from renewable sources fall to less than 1 cent per kWh hour by 2025 after factoring in all tax and production credits. Now, before we get all gaga over […].

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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

Skeleton Technologies receives US patent for nanoporous carbon powder supercapacitor material; higher energy and power densities and lower cost

Molycorp purchases remaining shares of European rare earth processing company

Neo Performance Materials to acquire exploration license for rare earth element project in Greenland

Green Hydrogen To Be Featured In World’s First Nationwide “Hydrogen Valley”

Molycorp to increase supply of rare earth materials to Hitachi Metals; the two call off US joint venture plans

Can a New Power Link Boost the EU’s Energy Independence?

UP Catalyst offering carbon-negative graphite for European battery supply chain

Neo Performance Materials and Energy Fuels launching US-European rare earth production initiative

EU NELLI project delivers new generation solid-oxide fuel cell; efficient and lower cost

Road Rally Review: Driving a Volkswagen ID. Buzz for 5,000 miles through Europe

Rolls-Royce consortium secures funding for mini nuclear reactors

Inside an American Rare-Earth Boomtown

Credit Suisse Predicts Renewable Energy That Is “Too Cheap To Meter” By 2025

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