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Critical minerals for green energy may become scarce, new report warns

by Scott Tong
May 5, 2021
It's not just a mining issue. China leads in processing and purifying the minerals, but the United States lags in that industrial sector.
The world’s need for lithium for batteries may surge 75-fold in the next three decades.
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Is lithium-ion the best way to power a renewable energy future?

by Noah Glick
Jan 1, 2021
Researchers are looking for alternative technologies that could offer safer, greener solutions.
Right now, the U.S. is dependent on imports for most batteries. But many of those metals, including lithium and cobalt, are available here in the U.S. What would owning the production of those metals look like?
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Will the U.S. invent the next generation of batteries?

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Dec 8, 2017
A potential lack of government funding could help other countries pull ahead.
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Lithium-ion batteries are about as good as they can get

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Dec 7, 2017
But it's just a matter of time before the problem is solved, a UC Berkeley engineer says.
To make lithium-ion batteries better, you have to invent new materials, says Kristin Persson of UC Berkeley.
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How Samsung's phone design caused battery problems

by Scott Tong
Oct 13, 2016
A lesson in the perils of the race to thinner, more energy-packed devices.
A South Korean employee works to provide replacement Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphones at a telecommunications shop in Seoul.
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