Sentences with phrase «of rare earth»

It uses 45 mm large - aperture drivers made of rare earth magnets and copper - clad aluminum wire voice coils.

Notable mandates: The firm's native affairs team worked on a number of pre-development agreements between First Nations and mining companies with regard to the exploration and mining of rare earth deposits in northern Quebec.

Mining corporation Molycorp, Inc. has announced plans to invest in Boulder Wind Power, a move that will position Molycorp to be the «preferred provider» of rare earth magnets and alloys for Boulder Wind.

Huge new discovery of reserves of rare earth elements used in technology, electric cars etc..

China produces 95 % of the worlds supply of the rare earth metal, dysprosium, a key metal in magnets used in the drive motors for hybrid electric vehicles - up to 100 grams of dysprosium per hybrid car produced, according to a Wikipedia reference.

Fellow TreeHugger John Laumer recently brought to our attention the fact that control of rare earth metals is Achilles heel of the hybrid and electric vehicles, and wind turbines we all are counting on to make the future a decidedly greener place.

Fellow TreeHugger John Laumer recently brought to our attention the fact that control of rare earth

John Hanson, a spokesperson for Toyota, told Treehugger this morning by email: «We can not discuss the specific content or amount of rare earth metals in our advanced hybrid systems.

A coincidence with the tightening of rare earth metals, but a necessary one for the company, which will need rare earths to build its Chevrolet Volt engine and battery.

I've got a mineral cabinet full of rare earth minerals (as well as radioactives) from all over the world.

For example, a single wind turbine can contain 335 tons of steel, 4.7 tons of copper, 3 tons of aluminum and 700 - plus pounds of rare earth minerals.

The Grubby Little Secrets page went on to talk about environmental damage in China due to the mining of rare earth minerals.

The graph on the right shows the major uses of rare earth elements in the USA.

FYI, the use of rare earth elements has very little to do with «green tech», it is a common requirement for everything that is usually called «high tech».

2000 MW of wind (a typical nuclear plant) which operates at 25 % of capacity (8000 MW nameplate rating), requires 800,000 tons of mostly stainless steel (100 tons per megawatt) and 2250 tons of rare earth metals.

What if a space ship suddenly arrived... hey, you insignificant little grubs, we want your planet, want to take one of your rare Earth elements.

These storage sites are huge and with take a lot of rare earth materials to build.

It begins with the mining of rare earth minerals, a collection of chemical elements manufactured mostly in China.

The problem of rare earth supply is one even shared by China's own wind turbine manufacturers.

Wind and solar power also mean there is a sudden demand for tons of rare earth elements that weren't terribly important a decade ago.

Whether it's research on the extraction of rare earth elements from acid mine drainage, biomass growth and conversion, improving renewable energy technology, or enhancing processes that enable us to better utilize our natural resources, we are proud to be a driving force behind the responsible development of our energy resources.

The best performing mining sector of 2017 so far isn't gold or any precious metal... and it isn't lithium or even some kind of rare earth element.

Perhaps Whole Foods, Sierra Club, NRDC, Obama's EPA and allied critics prefer to look toward China, which provides 95 % of the rare earth metals that are essential for wind turbines and solar panels.

For example, according to Apple, an iPhone 6 contains.01 ounces worth of rare earth elements (17 chemical elements essential to today's technology) in components that include the handset's speakers and touchscreen display.

The growing shortage of rare earth minerals underscores how truly difficult the transition to a clean energy economy will be.

Presenting itself under the label of the Rare Earth Element Praseodymium, the object harvests these energies, which it transmits as a signal radiating from inside Cell Project Space.

Nowadays, Tanoa thrives off rich deposits of rare earth metals exported the world over, but controversy and civil unrest have long surrounded these efforts due to the perceived social, economic and environmental impacts of their exploitation.

Imagine the bonanza for the likes of a Rare Earth Metals ETF in advance of a leak out of China about more export restrictions on critical metals for US military and telecommunications needs, or imagine the pop within a biotech ETF just before new study results or FDA rulings are announced — sometimes an entire ETF gains double digits in a day when an issue jumps over 100 %.

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Japanese researchers estimate 16M tonnes of rare earth deposits in deep - sea mud off Japan; hundreds of years of supply

We will also look at the use of alternative materials to both reduce the use of rare earth materials and for systems optimisation.

The future mentioned by you, where everyone drives an electric vehicle, will involve vast expansion of power generating facilities, total revamp of power transmission infrastructure (which has not been maintained properly for decades as it is) and ramping up battery production, which, I am pretty sure, is not remotely clean tech and requires vast amounts of rare earth materials.

During this process they looked for concentrations of a rare Earth metal called cerium in the zircons.

During her PhD at McMaster University, she grew large single crystals of rare earth titanate pyrochlores, appropriate for neutron scattering measurements, and carried out sophisticated time - of - flight neutron scattering measurements at dilution refrigerator temperatures, and in magnetic fields up to 8 T.

«The technological applications of rare earth elements are at an all - time high, and that just makes the work that all of you do all much more important.»

In that year, Frenchman Eugène - Anatole Demarçay isolated the element as an impurity in samples of another rare earth, samarium (named, indirectly, after Russian mine official V. E. Samarsky - Bykhovets).

«Instead of trying to regain each individual type of rare earth, we focus on recycling the entire material, meaning the complete magnet — and this in only a few steps,» Oliver Diehl, scientist in the Project Group IWKS explains.

Although samarium cobalt magnets (Sm2Co17 magnets), a type of rare earth permanent magnets, were developed in the early 1960's the underlying domain wall pinning mechanism has remained unknown.

The research cluster includes the Departments of Materials and Earth Sciences, Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering and aims to optimise the use of rare earth permanent magnets.

They'll add 50 tons of the rare earth metal gadolinium to the water in Super-K, allowing them to tell the difference between encounters with antineutrinos and other light - emitting pretenders.

Action is heating up in the world of rare earth minerals.

Despite belonging to the family of rare earth elements, cerium itself is not particularly scarce.

«This is the first detailed assessment of rare earth elements for the entire nation, describing deposits throughout the United States,» says Marcia McNutt of the US Geological Survey.

The paper also highlights the need to investigate alternatives such as recycling of rare earth elements that could minimize environmental impact in the deep sea and in turn help the Europe's transition to a circular economy.

Cerium dioxide is an oxide of the rare earth element cerium and a by - product of the process of extraction of rare earth metals.

This light stimulates dyes made with nanocrystals of rare earth elements — a family of 17 similar metals that are not scarce but are difficult to mine.

In an effort to help develop a sustainable domestic supply of rare earth elements and lessen the United States» dependence on China for materials that are vital to the production of electronics, wind turbines, and many other technologies, two researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a method of extracting rare earths from the drive units and motors of discarded electric and hybrid cars.

At the turn of the year the Chinese government announced that it was drastically reducing exports of the rare earth elements.

By next year, the site hopes to produce 2.7 million kilograms of rare earth oxides a year — separating the elements from the ore using a liquid ion - exchange process.

Without lightweight magnets made from alloys of rare earth elements, computer hard - drives and iPod headphones and speakers would be impossible.