source:Utah Business2016 study by the Pew Research Center found that 89 percent of respondents favored expanding solar panel farms and 83 percent of respondents indicated they’d like to see more wind turbine farms. People are not so universally aligned on all energy debates, however. The same 2016 study found that just 43 percent of the public favored expanding the use of nuclear power plants. A Pew report from May found that only 47 percent of adults support phasing out production of gasoline-powered cars and trucks. Energy Fuels Resources’ White Mesa Mill in San Juan County finds itself...
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SOURCE:PHYS.ORGNew technologies and expanding electrification mean a growing need for both common and uncommon metals, such as rare earth metals. One of Europe's largest deposits is in Norra Kärr outside of Gränna.'Norra Kärr can help make the EU self-sufficient in rare earth metals,' says Axel Sjöqvist, author of a new doctoral thesis at the University of Gothenburg.Reliable sources of rare earth metals are required to successfully transition to green energy and for new production of wind turbines and electrical cars. Rare earth metals are used in devices like ...
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source:THE SHERIDAN PRESSCASPER — Wyoming’s nascent rare earth elements industry may be inching closer to commercialization.Rare Element Resources, the mineral exploration and development company behind the Bear Lodge mining project in northeastern Wyoming, announced Saturday that it had secured funding for a demonstration-scale separation and processing plant in Upton, nine miles from its proposed rare earths mine.Rare earths are key components of technologies like cellphones, computers, televisions and batteries, and are used in industrial processes like petroleum refining and glass making. ...
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source:POWDER METALLURGY REVIEWGeneral Motors has announced that Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KG (VAC), a producer of advanced magnetic materials and rare earth permanent magnets headquartered in Hanau, Germany, is to build a new plant in the US to manufacture permanent magnets for the electric motors used in GM’s Ultium Platform for its electric vehicles. It was added that the new plant aims to use locally sourced raw materials.“We are building a resilient and sustainable EV manufacturing value chain in North America from raw materials to components to drive GM’s growth and support a mass ma...
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