source:GristAt an abandoned coal mine just outside the city of Gillette, Wyoming, construction crews are getting ready to break ground on a 10,000-square-foot building that will house state-of-the-art laboratories and manufacturing plants. Among the projects at the facility, known as the Wyoming Innovation Center, will be a pilot plant that aims to takes coal ash — the sooty, toxic waste left behind after coal is burned for energy — and use it to extract rare earths, elements that play an essential role in everything from cell phones and LED screens to wind turbines and electric cars. The...
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source:UPIMay 25 (UPI) -- To ensure manufacturers in Europe have a reliable supply of the rare earth elements needed to make electronics, including components for green technologies, one group of policy analysts wants the European Union to enact new recycling and reuse mandates.The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted most global supply chains, some more so than others. Supply chains that rely heavily on a single region or country for raw materials have proven especially vulnerable.Over the last few decades, the supply chain for rare earth elements has become increasingly reliant on China -- in 201...
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source:Idaho State JournalIDAHO FALLS — Every year, it takes millions of gallons of water to clean, peel and slice Idaho’s potatoes before they’re processed into any number of products from tater tots and animal feed to industrial starch.As a result, Idaho potato processors must treat and dispose of a large amount of wastewater that contains organic matter, silt and sand.But now, new research from the Idaho National Laboratory suggests that potato wastewater might serve well as a low-cost food source for a special bacterium that could be used to recycle high-tech devices, industrial catalysts ...
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source:COUNTERPUNCHThanks to its very name — renewable energy — we can picture a time in the not-too-distant future when our need for non-renewable fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal will vanish. Indeed, the Biden administration has announced a breakthrough target of 2035 for fully eliminating U.S. reliance on those non-renewable fuels for the generation of electricity. That would be accomplished by “deploying carbon-pollution-free electricity-generating resources,” primarily the everlasting power of the wind and sun.With other nations moving in a similar direction, it’s tempting to conclud...
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