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

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The DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and its licensee Moselle Technologies , have won two Cooperative Research and Development Awards (CRADA) and a 2021 DOE Advanced Manufacturing Office award to advance the process of using magnetic nanoparticles for capturing strategically important elements from water sources.

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Blue Ribbon Commission on Lithium Extraction in California submits final report to state legislature; findings and recommendations

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Mining is environmentally harmful—it scars landscapes, adversely affects ecosystems and habitat, is water- and energy-intensive, and can pollute air and water resources. Evaporation ponds are water-intensive, can require thousands of square miles of land, and are environmentally destructive.

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Aqua Metals opens first AquaRefining center for low-pollution lead-acid battery recycling

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recently held an open house at its first AquaRefinery at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) in McCarran, Nevada. The AquaRefining technology extracts lead from LABs with a room temperature, closed-loop, water-based process that results in significant reductions of hazardous waste and direct human contact with the lead itself.

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Johnson Controls partners with and invests in Aqua Metals for lead-acid battery recycling technology

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Supply Aqua Metals with batteries to recycle as a service, as part of the Johnson Controls closed-loop network. Aqua Metals, which recently opened its first plant in McCarran, Nevada, uses an advanced electrochemical process for recycling batteries. Purchase AquaRefined metals produced from Aqua Metals’ facilities.

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CU-Boulder technique finds major class of fracking chemicals no more toxic than common household substances; “fingerprinting”

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EO28), were identified in hydraulic fracturing flowback and produced water using a new application of the Kendrick mass defect and liquid chromatography/ quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Surfactants reduce the surface tension between water and oil, allowing for more oil to be extracted from porous rock underground.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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February, 2009 : Record heat waves in late January and early February overloaded urban energy, water, and transport systems in the southernmost states of South Australia and Victoria and intensified hundreds of seasonal and man-made bushfires throughout the countryside, killing 374 people.

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

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Electric cars in the garages would double as battery packs for when energy supplies are scarce. Demand for energy, to heat our buildings in the winter and cool them in the summer, is highest at the very time when supply is also the greatest. The coal ash is known to have many toxic metals and other pollutants. The best part?

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