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U Florida team using fungi to extract cobalt and lithium from waste batteries

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Most likely, many head to a landfill to slowly break down in the environment or go to an incinerator to be burned, generating potentially toxic air emissions. Cunningham’s team is developing an environmentally safe way to do this with fungi and putting them in an environment where they can do their work.

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Debunking the "Electric Cars are evil due to Cobalt" argument!

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Cobalt FUD Yes, Cobalt Mining is bad for the environment and bad for the people who live near these mines. [1] According to Oil Change International (OCI), the two most widely known cases by the oil industry are when they committed genocide in the Niger Delta just to get the people off the land, so that they can extract the petroleum.

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U Alberta study shows for the first time that sunlight causes chemical reactions in road dust; singlet oxygen

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— In the study, the team study, investigated the photochemical production of 1 O 2 by size-fractionated road dust collected in Edmonton, Alberta and compared the reactivity of this substrate to that of Arizona test dust, Niger sand, and Cape Verde dust. —Sarah Styler, corresponding author.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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As director of technology integration at Lockheed Martin , in Grand Prairie, Texas, he leads a team that is actively pursuing breakthroughs designed to, among other things, allow life-saving missions to be performed in hazardous environments without putting humans at risk.

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