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Environmental Impact of Lithium Mining
Lithium-ion  batteries use lithium metal in their anodes to release electricity from their cells. This active material is highly conductive,…
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Lithium has been so much in the news of late that lead acid seemed like the tortoise in the race.…
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The Shell Eco-Marathon Drivers’ World Championship hopes to bring the best urban-concept teams together. It wants them to take part…
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Smartphone users want slimmer phones that take less time to charge. This can run counter to engineering logic with quite…
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The virtual newsstands were groaning under the weight of videos of a certain laptop catching fire this morning. In this…