Now there may be one more reason to wait to get an electric car. Exciting discovery if it works out.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2...rt-of-the-stor
Now there may be one more reason to wait to get an electric car. Exciting discovery if it works out.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2...rt-of-the-stor
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t - you’re right."
- Henry Ford
This could be a very good thing. I particularly like the part where it is iron and nickel.
Ive been watching two thing in the rare earth side.
1. It turns out that there are a lot of fare earths in coal fly ash, the stuff that would go up the smokestack but is filtered. A scientist at Purdue named Linda Wang has come up with a way to economically extract rare earths.
2. Recycling the magnets is very difficult to automate because magnets stick to things. A scientist discovered that rare earth magnets crumble into non-magnetic dust when exposed to hydrogen gas. He cut up some disk drives and put them in a fancy clothes dryer and he can recover the dust.
now I’ll have another thing to follow.
We have a house on the Ohio River. For months we have been seeing barges of fly ash headed down river. I would love to think it was being mined.