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Shocker! US Could Lead On Compressed Air Energy Storage Project

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Whether it’s a malicious authoritarian plot or plain old bureaucratic bungling, President Trump has compromised air safety, public health, and national security, and capitulated to Russia, all within his first 30 days in office. That’s just the short list, and the hurts keep on coming. Nevertheless, clean energy investors still … [continued]

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Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries Offers Benefits Over Mining Virgin Metals

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Recycling lithium-ion batteries is the way to go, according to a new Stanford University lifecycle analysis published in Nature Communications. That’s because recovering the critical metals from used lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has significantly lower environmental impacts than does mining virgin metals. Recycling critical materials in end-of-life LIBs can help alleviate … [continued]

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