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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem

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Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. There are real challenges with waste streams—they yield a lot of sulfuric acid and sodium sulfate, which will need to get landfilled.

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Foraging on Public Lands Is Becoming More Limited

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Individual parks set limits each year, some like Death Valley in California and Nevada restrict the collection of foods like nuts and berries to a quart a day, and only for personal consumption. The mushrooms pop to the surface where they release spores that are borne by the wind, as part of mycelium reproduction.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem – Charged EVs

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Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. There are real challenges with waste streams—they yield a lot of sulfuric acid and sodium sulfate, which will need to get landfilled.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County, Nevada: $3,000,000. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Capital District Transportation Authority, New York: $3,520,000.

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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. would supply the growing market of wind turbine generators and. Nevada Las. technology with advanced catalysts.

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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 Battery manufacturing comprises four main processes: creation of the electrodes (coating); winding; assembly; and formation (charging for the first time, verifying quality). Tesla has two battery-related goals, Musk said. The first is terawatt-scale battery production.

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The Game-Changing Water Revolution: Interview with Stanley Weiner

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Drought conditions have intensified in Nevada and Utah, and Arizona is facing a similar problem to California-it’s growing thirstier by the day. Importantly, this means there is no need for deep well waste water injections, evaporation ponds and other recognized methods for disposing of concentrated brine waste from desalination activities.

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