Lithium

Authored by Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarno via Counterpunch.org, Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, wants to build an electric car factory in Brazil. He was supposed to meet Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, in Miami in early March, but he was too busy; instead, Musk will go to…

China Power | Diplomacy China has been able to weather the fall of friendly leftist governments in the region — at least so far. Credit: Flickr/ Cancillería del EcuadorDuring the last 20 years, China has penetrated into Latin America, mostly through a network of relations with friendly nationalist governments that saw Beijing…

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 one of the key components of lithium-ion batteries.   A team of researchers from Australia’s Monash University, Australia’s national science agency CSIRO,…

Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, wants to build an electric car factory in Brazil. He was supposed to meet Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, in Miami in early March, but he was too busy; instead, Musk will go to Brazil sometime this year.…

Elon Musk (AP/Stephan Savoia) South America is a place for the neo-conquistadors to make money and leave behind them social carnage. Vijay Prashad - Alejandro Bejarano March 11, 2020 7:00AM (UTC) This article was produced by Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, wants…

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Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, wants to build an electric car factory in Brazil. He was supposed to meet Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, in Miami in early March, but he was too busy; instead, Musk will go to Brazil sometime this year. All eyes are on the southern Brazilian…

An international research team has pioneered and patented a new filtration technique that could one day slash lithium extraction times and change the way the future is powered. The world-first study, published today in the international journal Nature Materials, presents findings that demonstrate the way in which Metal-Organic Framework (MOF)…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain An international research team has pioneered and patented a new filtration technique that could one day slash lithium extraction times and change the way the future is powered. The world-first study, published today in the prestigious international journal Nature Materials, presents findings that demonstrate the way…

A world-first study, led by Australia's Monash University, has patented a new filtration technique that could slash lithium extraction times. The research team has developed a synthetic MOF-based membrane that can filter lithium ions in an ultra-fast and highly selective manner. Preliminary studies have shown this technology has a lithium…