Lithium

Welcome to Vanadium miners news. April saw vanadium prices marginally higher and a COVID-19 dominated month of news. Vanadium uses Vanadium is traditionally used to harden steel. New Chinese rebar standards are requiring more vanadium. Also, Vanadium Flow Batteries are becoming increasingly popular especially for commercial energy storage, most notably…

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Lithium-ion Battery Manufacturing Market in India 2020" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The rapid penetration of electric vehicles in India is expected to drive the need for Lithium (Li)-ion battery manufacturing in the country. Li-ion batteries act as the primary storage option for electro-chemical energy. These…

1 Introduction Although lithium has been used as a raw material in various production sectors, such as glass, ceramics, and aluminum, in the last two decades its importance has raised due to the spread of Li‐ion batteries in portable devices, electromobility, and large‐scale energy storage. Lithium production grew steadily year…

A research team is close to patenting a new technique to extract lithium from brine that could revolutionize the lithium extraction process and potentially cut the production costs of a key component of lithium-ion batteries.   A team of researchers from Australia’s Monash University, Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, the University…

It is now given that the coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic will become the biggest reason for a prolonged slowdown in automotive demand, not just in India, but across the world. The disruption though has happened in the middle of a critical transition that the automotive world was witnessing; switch over…

The second in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from Political Economy for the End Times. Javier Moreno Zacares (JMZ): In your work, you historicise the emergence of what you call the ‘growth paradigm’ – the self-conscious pursuit of linear growth. You argue that this logic is not built…

On November 10, 2019, a U.S.-backed group of neofascists in Bolivia deposed the government of Evo Morales on spurious accusations of electoral fraud. The coup government’s first act was to unleash the army and police on mainly Indigenous protestors in the capital of La Paz, killing at least 10 people.…

Welcome to Vanadium miners news. March saw vanadium prices move lower and an interesting month of vanadium market news where we meet the inventor of the Vanadium Redox Flow Battery . Vanadium uses Vanadium is traditionally used to harden steel. New Chinese rebar standards are requiring more vanadium. Also Vanadium…

Batteries Published on March 20th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley March 20th, 2020 by Steve Hanley  Lithium is fairly abundant in nature, but getting large quantities suitable for use in battery cells is a slow and expensive process. Researchers at Monash University, CSIRO, the University of Melbourne, and the University…

The latest statistical analyses say that the Organisation of American States' conclusions about the alleged fraud in Bolivia’s October vote don't hold water. Ex-UN official Alfred de Zayas has explained what steps could be taken by international and regional bodies in the aftermath of the exposure and shed light on…