Energy & Green Tech
Researchers from Tel Aviv University have succeeded in producing "green" hydrogen using green electricity—The hydrogen is produced without air pollution, with a high level of efficiency, utilizing a biocatalyst. Hydrogen ...
Jul 17, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
An increasing number of electric cars are being sold, consequently raising the quantity of produced electric motors. At the end of their useful life, these electric motors are shredded and then recycled. The individual components ...
Jan 2, 2024
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Engineering
A University of Toronto researcher has developed a new technique to help recycle the metals in lithium-ion batteries, which are in high demand amid surging global sales of electric vehicles.
Oct 4, 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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Energy & Green Tech
Meeting the European Union's Green Deal goal of climate neutrality by 2050 will require 35 times more lithium and 7 to 26 times the amount of increasingly scarce rare earth metals compared to Europe's limited use today, according ...
Apr 25, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
What do silver, silicon and gallium have in common? These expensive raw materials are essential components of our various solar energy technologies. What about neodymium, praseodymium and dysprosium? These rare earth metals ...
Sep 7, 2023
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Automotive
Tesla says it will cut the cost of its next generation of vehicles in half, largely by using innovative manufacturing techniques and smaller factories.
Mar 2, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Wind and sun may be nearly infinite resources. But the materials needed to build wind turbines and solar panels are not always common. Take the rare earth metals—neodymium, dysprosium, and praseodymium—for example. Chances ...
Aug 16, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
President Joe Biden highlighted his efforts to counter China's dominance of the electric battery market on Tuesday as he touted domestic efforts to mine and process lithium and rare metals necessary to create the technology ...
Feb 23, 2022
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Business
Cobalt hit the headlines Wednesday after Glencore shut a key African facility that mines the rare metal—and blamed prices that have been tumbling from highs seen in recent years on battery demand.
Aug 7, 2019
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