ADVERTISEMENT Norway’s quest for ‘black gold’ from used car batteries By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES Oslo (AFP) June 30, 2023 Wearing a white lab coat and with a gas mask within reach, Ole Jorgen Gronvold measures the humidity of an intriguing dark powder touted as the planet’s next “black gold”. But this “black gold” — […]
ADVERTISEMENT China, Russia pledge $1.4 bn for lithium plants in Bolivia by AFP Staff Writers La Paz (AFP) June 30, 2023 China and Russia will invest $1.4 billion in lithium projects in Bolivia, a South American nation with vast reserves of the metal crucial for batteries to power electric vehicles, the government said […]
ADVERTISEMENT Chinese, Russian firms to build lithium plants in Bolivia by AFP Staff Writers La Paz (AFP) June 29, 2023 Chinese and Russian companies will invest more than $1.4 billion in the extraction of lithium in Bolivia, one of the countries with the largest reserves of the mineral used in electric car batteries, […]
ADVERTISEMENT Dual-use rechargeable battery by Simon Mansfield Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 28, 2023 In the quest to advance the field of energy storage, researchers from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, have developed an innovative battery system. The novel hybrid battery system not only stores and provides electricity but also generates valuable chemicals […]
ADVERTISEMENT Nobel-winning lithium battery inventor John Goodenough dies at 100 by AFP Staff Writers Washington (AFP) June 27, 2023 John Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the lithium-ion battery that revolutionized modern life, has died at the age of 100, the University of Texas announced. Goodenough died on […]
ADVERTISEMENT Towards efficient lithium-air batteries with solution plasma-based synthesis of perovskite hydroxide catalysts by Staff Writers Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 27, 2023 With global warming on the rise, it has become imperative to reduce fossil fuel dependency and switch to alternate green energy sources. The development of electric vehicles is a move towards […]
