Researchers Announce Sustainable Metals Processing, Electrodes From Scrap Metal
Researchers in Canada and China have discovered new ways to make sustainable metals and reclaim scrap metal for battery electrodes.
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Peru May Lower Air Quality Standards To Attract New Operator For Polymetallic Smelter
Peru’s Environment Ministry has issued a decree proposing that the country’s environmental quality standards be lowered in a bid to attract a buyer/operator for a polymetallic smelter located there — as part of President Pablo Kuczynski’s efforts to add refining capacity to the country’s copper export sector (the second largest in the world).
Tesla Model S Raffle, Volt vs Prius … (EV News)
More EV news for you EV addicts: The Illinois Solar Energy Association is raffling off a Tesla Model S. The price to enter the raffle is just $100, and only 2000 tickets will be sold. (EV Obsession) A BYD electric bus was recently driven for 24 hours straight on a … [continued]
Renewable Energy Needs Copper (And Steel And Aluminium)
Originally published on The Lenz Blog by Karl-Friedrich Lenz Says this article at Nature Geoscience. Their numbers: If the contribution from wind turbines and solar energy to global energy production is to rise from the current 400 TWh to 12,000 TWh in 2035 and 25,000 TWh in 2050, as projected by the … [continued]
3M Competes to Make Solar Thermal Cheaper With a Thin Film
Now even 3M is getting into the solar biz. The huge Minnesota company is famous for the Post-It Note and other mainstays of Western civilization, but now their excellent materials scientists have been put to work creating a reflective foil that can be used to make the (already rather cheap) … [continued]
IBM Sets New Solar Cell Efficiency World Record
It is not the world record for ALL solar cells, but for solar cells using certain cheap and highly available materials, IBM has just set a new world record. The world record is for solar cells composed of copper, tin, zinc, sulfur, selenium, or similar materials. The new record is … [continued]
Scotttish Researchers Revolutionize Wind Turbine Engineering With Minor Tweak
A wind turbine efficiency breakthrough by Dr Markus Mueller and Dr Alasdair McDonald of the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Energy Systems has the potential to revolutionize the wind energy industry by making large turbines more failure-proof by cutting their weight in half. [social_buttons] It is expensive and hazardous sending … [continued]
Invention to Clean Up Gold Mining, Improve Miner Health
A Peruvian engineer has created a device that drops the use of mercury in the gold mining process by instead using “a foam flotation process with simple gravitational techniques” to separate gold from rocks.[social_buttons] The most commonly used process in developing countries uses mercury to separate the gold from the … [continued]
