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Breakthrough technology for lithium manufacture

Envirotec Magazine

As global effort to fight climate change intensifies, the challenge for battery manufacturers and their supply chains is to find ways to meet the rapidly growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs). According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), global sales of new electric vehicles (EV) grew from 3 million in 2020 to 6.6

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Why Doesn’t Load Flexibility Have the Same Incentives as Energy Storage?

GreenTechMedia

John Powers is the co-founder and CEO of Extensible Energy, a load-flexibility software company. *. We are in the middle of the most remarkable transformation in the history of the electricity grid — from dirty and centralized to clean, distributed, and digital. Don’t get me wrong: I love batteries.

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Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity

GreenBiz

Each year, approximately 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) are produced, equivalent in weight to all commercial aircraft ever built; only 20 percent is formally recycled," write the authors of a report published by the World Economic Forum in 2019. Exciting new business models.

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Recycling e-waste should be a legal requirement in the EU, says report

Envirotec Magazine

The report by the CEWASTE consortium – led by the Switzerland-based World Resources Forum – says this requirement should apply to certain e-waste categories, including: End-of-life circuit boards, certain magnets in disc drives and electric vehicles, EV and other special battery types, and fluorescent lamps.

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River monitoring drone boats arrive in UK

Envirotec Magazine

The water monitoring Surfbee vehicles have a 1km transmitter with Bluetooth and 4G connectivity, hold a top speed of 4m/s and are powered by common power tool lithium-ion batteries. The inflatable hull and power tool battery compatibility also offers seamless storage and transport options.

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Weardale Lithium applies for geothermal lithium development in County Durham, UK

ThinkGeoEnergy

Weardale Lithium Limited (Weardale Lithium) has submitted a planning application to the Durham County Council for the phased construction of a lithium extraction plant at Eastgate in Weardale, County Durham, UK.

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Storing Energy in the Freezer: Long-Duration Thermal Storage Comes of Age

GreenTechMedia

Jason Dreisbach fields at least half a dozen calls every week from people trying to sell him a technology to lower his energy costs. Cold storage — from frozen food warehouses to grocery and restaurant refrigeration — has one of the highest energy costs of any industry; energy expenditures are usually second only to payroll.