Business
Tulips and bitcoin have both been associated with financial bubbles in their time, but in a giant greenhouse near Amsterdam the Dutch are trying to make them work together.
Dec 11, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Critical minerals, including rare earth elements, are used to power devices like smartphones and computers and are essential to our nation's economy and national security. Penn State's Center for Critical Minerals has developed ...
Nov 22, 2022
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South Korea's LG Chem signed an agreement with the US state of Tennessee to build a $3.2 billion cathode materials plant for electric vehicle batteries, the company said Tuesday.
Nov 22, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
After nearly a century of geopolitical tension over access to oil, experts worry that the global transition to clean energy is creating new dependencies on the critical minerals needed for solar panels, wind turbines and ...
Oct 24, 2022
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Engineering
West Virginia University researchers are resurrecting discarded electronics, recycling electronic waste and recovering minerals from it to make new products critical for national defense.
Sep 29, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
The U.S. effort to build a domestic supply of clean energy often begins with critical materials produced in far-off—and geopolitically sensitive—countries. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne ...
Sep 14, 2022
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Engineering
Researchers at Curtin University have developed new technology for the rapid cleaning and re-use of drilling fluids, paving the way toward more efficient and environmentally-friendly mineral exploration.
Jul 6, 2022
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Computer Sciences
The advent of blockchains has ignited much excitement, not only for their realization of novel financial instruments, but also for offering alternative solutions to classical problems in fault-tolerant distributed computing ...
May 18, 2022
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Automotive
Continuing its push to dramatically boost sales of electric vehicles, the Biden administration on Monday announced $3.1 billion in funding to U.S. companies that make and recycle lithium-ion batteries.
May 2, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
The Texas grid operator expects crypto miners to increase electricity demand by up to 6 gigawatts by mid-2023, more than enough to power every home in Houston.
Apr 28, 2022
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