Why All Eyes Are On Zimbabwe’s Lithium Industry
Zimbabwe has been mining lithium for 60 years and the government estimates that its Chinese-owned Bikita mine, which is located 300 km south of the...
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Copper, Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel: Commodities and Batteries for Electric Cars, Homes and More
Copper, Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel: Commodities and Batteries for Electric Cars, Homes and More
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Energy: A millennial is building America’s first nickel-cobalt refinery
But it’s proving ethically trickier than she expected | United States
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Building better batteries. Sodium batteries offer an alternative to tricky lithium
Lithium is relatively scarce and mostly refined in China. Sodium is neither | Leaders
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Green supply chains; Asia’s battery battlefield.
A battery supply chain that excludes China looks impossible. The outcome will be determined in Asia, where most battery supply chains are based. Th...
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Indonesia’s nickel boom tests Western green sensibilities
Making batteries for electric vehicles requires environmental and geopolitical trade-offs | Business
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China Could Dominate Sodium Batteries, the Next Big Advance in Power - The New York Times
China is far ahead of the rest of the world in the development of batteries that use sodium, which are starting to compete with ubiquitous lithium ...
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The Lithium Mine Versus the Wildflower | WIRED
The deposit could power 400,000 clean-energy car batteries. There’s just one roadblock: a rare, fragile species of buckwheat, which for a mine migh...
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Lithium costs a lot of money—so why aren’t we recycling lithium batteries? | Ars Technica
The nascent recycling industry needs to economically deconstruct lots of formats.
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Searching for lithium deposits with satellites - Prospecting from space | The Economist
CORNWALL, a rugged peninsula that forms Britain’s south-western extremity, has a history of mining going back thousands of years. Its landscape is ...
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Ten years left to redesign lithium-ion batteries || Nature
Reserves of cobalt and nickel used in electric-vehicle cells will not meet future demand. Refocus research to find new electrodes based on common e...
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The Beginning of the End for Copper | POTs and PANs
The FCC voted last Thursday to relax the rules for retiring copper wiring. This change was specifically aimed at Verizon and AT&T and is going to m...
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Can the world produce enough cobalt for electric vehicles? - Battery farming - The Economist
THE ONLY thing that can accelerate as fast as an electric car is the price of the most expensive metal in its batteries. Once a niche input used to...
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The broader lesson from booming copper prices - commodities | The Economist
Shortages in commodity markets offer a paradigm for the post-virus economy | Finance & economics
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