#Lithium

There weren’t any humans strapped into the bucket seats of the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission. But there were two anthropomorphic mannequins made to mimic human bone and soft tissue, but also equipped with hundreds of radiation sensors spread…

Oil drilling in Texas generates an incredible amount of water—which is full of precious minerals. Element3 is pulling them out to help the U.S. compete with China in the battery economy.

Throwing an AirTag into your luggage is a great way to make sure it reaches your destination, but are you breaking airline rules by doing so?

Throwing an AirTag into your luggage is a great way to make sure it reaches your destination, but are you breaking airline rules by doing so?

Batteries that swap liquid electrolytes for solid materials promise to charge faster, last longer, and (crucially) run cooler.

As EV sales boom and grids seek more energy storage, researchers are racing to develop batteries that are cheaper, more powerful, and less reliant on hard-to-source materials.…

A battery technology that’s getting a lot of attention is solid-state batteries, lithium-ion batteries that replace the liquid electrolyte with a solid material.

The energy-efficient desalination system produces fresh water without chemical additives and transforms leftover salts into useful materials.

University of Rochester scientists created a solar panel that desalinates seawater into fresh water without chemicals or toxic brine. The laser-textured surface directs salts into solid form, recovering lithium in the process.…

Sodium-ion batteries are rapidly gaining on lithium in consistency and fast charging.

MIT researchers developed a lower-cost, eco-friendlier method for extracting lithium from spodumene rocks by using mechanical grinding to activate the mineral, followed by mild chemical treatment at just 200°C.…

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence that tiny red dwarf stars can devour their own planets.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT News: Currently, lithium hard rock extraction involves baking the rock at over 1,000 Celsius and chemically leaching it to extract lithium. The rest of the rock is discarded.…

Startup Rock Zero is commercializing the research, which could cut costs and carbon emissions from lithium production.

We know that stars can engulf planets because stars that swell up to become red giants overwhelm any close-in planets. The Sun will do this to Venus, Mercury, and possibly Earth in a few billion years.…

From Benzinga RSS Feed: The World Needs More Lithium. This Company Cracked the Code to Better Extraction, and They’re Quickly Scaling Into Commercial Production.

What do electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and your smartphone have in common? All of their batteries use lithium, a naturally-occurring metal that’s seeing growing demand from manufacturers around the world.