#NETL researchers hope the new #Nickel catalyst, and catalysts using other similarly inexpensive materials, will accelerate the installation of large-scale #CO2-conversion and #Hydrogen-generation systems for the production of #Carbon-friendly, environmentally responsible fuels and chemicals.
Read more at: http://www.energy.gov/articles/move-over-platinum-we-want-nickel
#PadmasreeWarrior believes that by leveraging the Internet of Things (#IoT), the next generation of vehicles will be better poised to eliminate the pain points that come with owning and maintaining a car.
Padmasree Warrior is the CEO of #US for #NextEV, an electric vehicle company and was called the “Queen of the Electric Car Biz” by #Fortune magazine.
Read more at: https://iq.intel.com/padmasree-warrior-transform-auto-industry/
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Polymet Mining announced it has applied for a permit to mine #Copper, Nickel and precious metals at a site in northern #Minnesota known as The Duluth Complex – a rich vein of minerals stretching from about 150 miles north of Duluth to the #Canadian border.
Read more at: http://www.mining.com/first-copper-nickel-mine-minnesota-inches-forward/
The Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) would effectively give its wearer superpowers, such as the ability to see in the dark, super-human strength and a way of deflecting bullets.
It is aimed at providing Navy SEALs and Special Forces with enhanced mobility and protection technologies – and will be tested in 2018.
Scientists at the #Massachusetts Institute of Technology (#MIT) are developing a next-generation kind of armour called ‘liquid body armour.’
It ‘transforms from liquid to solid in milliseconds when a magnetic field or electrical current is applied,’ the Army website said.
Potentially flammable #Llithium-ion batteries are in many electronics, including #Samsung phones. The Department of Energy (#DOE) is now spending tens of millions of dollars on creating a safer alternative, and one research project is showing promising results, reports #CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford.
At a research lab at the University of #Maryland, small, lithium-infused ceramic discs are replacing the combustible components of today’s lithium-ion batteries. Research scientists are showed us how they plan to build a better battery – one that can’t catch fire.
Read more at: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/samsung-recall-lithium-ion-batteries-catching-fire-research-lab-safer-alternatives/
Battery-grade #Lithium prices tripled to more than $20,000 a tonne in top consumer #China over the summer as demand surged, but #Chile continues to consider the mineral as “strategic” and limits its production.
Read more at: http://uk.reuters.com/article/lmeweek-chile-lithium-idUKL1N1D31DY
Percentage of Canadian Mining Assets by Country, 2014
The move has had an immediate and profound impact on #Canadian attitudes toward #Argentina, said Mario Capello, under secretary of Mines and Energy for Argentina.
“Eighty per cent of mining investment in Argentina is Canadian,” he said in an interview this week with the Midas Letter in #BuenosAires, making them the nation’s most important mining financiers.
The average conventional internal combustion engine (#ICE) vehicle contains around 20kgs of #Copper. The average hybrid vehicle uses around 40kgs, 2 times higher than an ICE. The average pure battery powered #EV contains around 80kgs, producing a copper coefficient 4 times the ICE level.
Global EV fleet will expand from approximately 1 million vehicles today to around 140 million in 2035. That would displace about 2 million barrels of oil demand per day in that year, worth about US$37 billion annually at today’s prices in a US$1¾ trillion market.
However, those same vehicles will consume around 11 million tonnes of copper in their production. Subtracting the copper that would have been used in the ICEs ‘displaced’ by EVs, and that figure comes down to around 8½ million tonnes of genuine new demand – worth around US$38 billion dollars at today’s copper price. That 8½ million tonnes is equivalent to around one-third of total refined copper demand today.
Read more at: http://www.bhpbilliton.com/investors/Prospects/the-bullish-thesis-for-copper
The global #Nickel market is seen in a 66,000 tonne deficit next year, in line with this year, on growing demand from the stainless steel sector, the International Nickel Study Group (#INSG) said.
#GeneralElectric Co. is in talks to merge its oil-and-gas business with #BakerHughes Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, a transaction that would dramatically reshape the industrial giant, #GE.
Read more at: http://www.wsj.com/articles/general-electric-in-talks-to-buy-baker-hughes-1477607865
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