Engineering
Zapping rocks with a high-voltage pulse—similar to a lightning strike—could be the answer to decarbonizing the mining industry according to researchers from The University of Queensland.
May 14, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
There's some irony in the fact that devices that seem indispensable to modern life—mobile phones, personal computers, and anything battery-powered—depend entirely on minerals extracted from mining, one of the most ancient ...
Apr 23, 2024
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Business
The "miners" who chisel bitcoins out of complex mathematics are taking a 50% pay cut—effectively reducing new production of the world's largest cryptocurrency, again.
Apr 19, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
In an ironic twist, a treasure trove of critical minerals is dumped out with water considered too polluted and expensive to clean.
Jan 24, 2024
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Business
A group of critical raw materials may help Europe reduce supply-chain vulnerabilities.
Jan 3, 2024
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Business
Americans could have a harder time finding electric vehicles that qualify for a full $7,500 federal tax credit under new rules proposed Friday that are likely to hinder President Joe Biden's goal that half of new passenger ...
Dec 1, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A research team, led by Dr. Hosun Shin from the Interdisciplinary Materials Measurement Institute at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science and Professor Jae Yong Song's team from the Department of Semiconductor ...
Nov 29, 2023
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Business
Amid the loud fans and a towering wall of supercomputers, a digital gold rush is taking place in Texas.
Nov 27, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Many of the big wind and solar farms planned to help Australia achieve net zero emissions by 2050 will be built on the lands and waters of First Nations peoples. More than half of the projects that will extract critical minerals ...
Oct 26, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
With a clean energy transition hungry for more minerals, representatives from dozens of countries and industry met in Paris on Thursday looking to shore up deliveries against supply chain snarls and geopolitical tensions.
Sep 28, 2023
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A mineral is a naturally occurring solid formed through geological processes that has a characteristic chemical composition, a highly ordered atomic structure, and specific physical properties. A rock, by comparison, is an aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids, and need not have a specific chemical composition. Minerals range in composition from pure elements and simple salts to very complex silicates with thousands of known forms. The study of minerals is called mineralogy.
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