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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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The projects were selected as part of ARPA-E’s Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery (MINER) program. The projects were selected as part of ARPA-E’s Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery (MINER) program. Earlier post.)The Earlier post.)The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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The world’s only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming

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According to Gates, founder and chairman of TerraPower, Natrium will “be the most advanced nuclear facility in the world, and it will be much safer and produce far less waste than conventional reactors.” Unlike water, the sodium doesn’t need to be pumped, because as it gets hot, it rises, and as it rises, it cools off.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem

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Aqua Metals has pioneered a new electro-hydrometallurgy process that uses renewable electricity and recycles the chemicals used. Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams.

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Faraday Institution commits a further $31M to battery research to deliver commercial impact

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To meet government’s aim of moving towards a more circular economy, keeping resources in use as long as possible, minimising waste and promoting resource efficiency, the infrastructure for managing lithium-ion batteries when they are removed from electric vehicles (EVs) must be developed.

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Molten-Salt Battery Freezes Energy Over a Whole Season

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As the pressure to decarbonize electricity grids mounts, so does the need to have long-term storage options for power generated from renewables. Especially for sources like wind and solar, which have discontinuous availability. An important one, Sprenkle adds, is understanding the value of that stored energy. “A

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Aqua Metals has pioneered a new electro-hydrometallurgy process that uses renewable electricity and recycles the chemicals used. Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams.

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ORNL advancing LDH sorbent to recover lithium from geothermal brine wastes

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Those brines can contain as much as 250 to 300 parts-per-million lithium. The LDH sorbent is made up of layers of the materials, separated by water molecules and hydroxide ions that create space, allowing lithium chloride to enter more readily than other ions such as sodium and potassium.

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