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Home Posts tagged "Rare Earth Materials"

Tag: Rare Earth Materials

BMW funding research into sustainable lithium production

December 16, 2020 May 11, 2022

Lithium can be produced in areas not subject to active resource wars

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A practical reason behind Trump’s insane quest to buy Greenland?

August 30, 2019 August 30, 2019

During August 2019, President Trump floated another of his insane-seeming ideas – namely that the USA wants to buy Greenland. It’s the 2000’s and the World Powers don’t go buying territories from each other any longer, do they? We started to dismiss this as another of the crazy ideas that…

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Two materials science breakthroughs could reduce EV cost and reliance on rare materials

May 3, 2014 March 31, 2015

A couple recent materials science breakthroughs could, if they pan out, reduce the need for rare materials in electric cars, reduce their cost, etc. Researchers see rare-earth-like magnetic properties in iron: The issue is the rare earth metals normally required in magnets for electric motors. While Iron can hold a…

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Research team awarded $4.4 million to develop next generation high power magnets

November 7, 2009 May 28, 2015

Among 37 projects awarded, on Oct 26, 2009, $151 million in Department of Energy grants is one aimed to develop new high energy magnet technology.  As noted in earlier reporting advanced technology vehicles rely on electric motors using powerful rare earth magnets (see Oil scarcity leads us to electric cars…

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Oil scarcity leads us to electric cars which leads us to Neodymium scarcity

September 4, 2009 May 28, 2015

Peak Neodymium? A recent Reuters article quotes Jack Lifton, an independent commodities consultant and strategic metals expert, as raising an alarm about the use of rare earth materials (like Neodymium) in hybrid and electric cars like the Prius. The article raises the specter of running out of these rare earth…

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