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DeepGreen lifecycle analysis argues for sourcing EV battery materials from deep-sea polymetallic nodules

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100% reduction in solid waste. Compared to land mining, which requires construction of roads for transporting equipment, rock, and ore, as well as trenches, pits, and tunnels for mining, nodule collection requires no fixed infrastructure. Reinjection of deep seawater used for vertical transport in the mid-water column.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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Fats and greases and inedible oils are opportunity feedstocks, but the US supply of fats and greases is probably on the order of less than 10 million barrels, closer to 1-2 million barrels on an annual basis. Upgrading thus is essential for use as a transportation fuel or blendstock. That’s a big sum.

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