Sentences with phrase «on rare earth metals»

More on wind power and on rare earth metals: Goodbye Fossil Fuel Dependence, Hello Rare Earth Dependence!

China Tightens Grasp on Rare Earth Metals Vital for Green Technologies Boulder's Gigantic Wind Turbines: Are Those People!?

Alex previously wrote about concerns as China Tightens Grasp on Rare Earth Metals Vital for Green Technologies; now we are seeing it in action.

CMI seeks ways to eliminate and reduce reliance on rare earth metals and other materials critical to the success of clean energy technologies.

Not exact matches

The North is sitting on US$ 6 trillion worth of minerals, according to a South Korean state - owned mining company, including rare earth metals, which are used to build everything from smart cars to iPhones.

The only leverage China really has on the global stage is its stash of rare - earth metals.

Palladium — one of the rarest elements on earth and mined almost exclusively in Russia and South Africa — is the smallest precious metals market, making its prices particularly vulnerable to such speculative trading.

I think China finally caught on to the fact that it was pricing its rare earth minerals at the uneconomic low - cost margin of extraction, not taking into account the environmental clean up costs or the replacement costs for these basically irreplaceable rare metals.

Based in New York, Chris has been an independent analyst since 2009 with a focus on Energy Metals including lithium, cobalt, graphite, vanadium, and rare earths.

The 1970's saw a rise in the price of commodities generally, and gold acted as a barometer for how little people trusted the new financial system that replaced one of the rarest metals on earth with «made up money».

Concomitantly, as smuggling and illegal mining thrived on this highly lucrative market, China has also recently started a vigorous crackdown on illegal activity and took steps for greater regulation of the rare earth metals sector.

This refers to rare earth metals or rare - earth elements (REMs), a set of 17 naturally occurring non-toxic materials, which play a pivotal role for emerging technologies and which are predominantly produced and exported from China.Estimations of China «s hold on the REMs market are as high as 97 % of the world production.

Then, China «s exports declined by 70 %, spiking prices up to 40 %, causing alarm among the economies and industries that rely on rare - earth metals and a so - called «rare - earth metals crisis».

Platinum, one of the rarest and most expensive metals on Earth, may soon find itself out of a job.

About this Book: Rare: The High - Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth Keith Veronese Prometheus Books, 2015

Talking about her cover story on what iron - loving elements are telling geologists about the Earth's deep past, Alexandra Witze likens these rare metals to time travelers.

A massive wind turbine — capable of turning the breeze into two million watts of power — has 40 - meter - long blades made from fiberglass, towers 90 meters above the ground, weighs hundreds of metric tons, and fundamentally relies on roughly 300 kilograms of a soft, silvery metal known as neodymium — a so - called rare earth.

Rare The High - Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth Keith Veronese Prometheus, Amherst, NY, 2015 Hardback: 270 pp., illus.

Her further work on Nb6 and Ta6 clusters concerned halides compounds in which for the first time a magnetic network of 4f rare earths ions and a magnetic network due to d electrons of the metal clusters were associated in a same compound giving magnetic properties characteristics of the coexistence of these two sublatices.

Two years ago the Critical Materials Institute launched, bringing together the best scientific minds from national labs, universities, and industry that could move research on rare - earth metals quickly and on to marketable technologies, shortening development time by years if not decades.

In the opening moments of the film, we learn that Wakanda is one of the few places on earth where the rare metal known as vibranium can be found, enabling a rich trove of technological wonders to be developed, and enabling the country to provide all that its native citizens need (or want).

However, no sooner is T'Challa named King than the country's old enemy, Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis), emerges from the shadows, breaks into a British museum, and steals a rare Wakandan artifact made of Vibranium: the strongest metal on earth and the precious mineral that holds the key to Wakanda's many secrets - from the country's advanced technology to Black Panther's impenetrable armor and the rare herb that provides him with his superhuman abilities.

More importantly, Steve dons a form - fitting red, white and blue costume and an impenetrable shield made of vibranium, the rarest metal on Earth.

The film could have just been all panther suits and bad guys with cannons for arms, fighting over a rare metal that is the most indestructible element on earth.

All that and more, plus a look at how China cornered the market on rare - earth metals.

More than 80 % of 17 rare earth metals comes from China alone and, with China imposing restrictions on exportations of the elements, Honda is taking steps towards independence from them.

The iPhone, for example, is made from commodities such as silicon, iron, plastic, steel, and rare earth metals fashioned into computer chips, screens, and so on.

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 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 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 %.

There are three types of resources in Act of Aggression: Oil, which is used for basic units and structures; Aluminum, which is used for more tech - focused projects; and Rare Earth Metal, which is used late - game on things like powerful units or superweapons.

None of these technologies have panned out: there has been no decrease in CO2 due to these technologies (maybe fracking, if you disregard methane, a green house gas) and, on the contrary, a massive increase in green house gases as well as a reliance on dodgy sources for smelting and acquiring these rare earth minerals and metals.

Using commercially available solar cells and none of the usual rare metals, researchers at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have designed an intrinsically stable and scalable solar water splitting device that is fully based on earth - abundant materials, with a solar - to - hydrogen... Read more →

The need to eliminate our dependency on expensive platinum and other rare - earth metals is why the U of C breakthrough is potentially game - changing.

The United States has been concerned for quite some time about China's chokehold on the global supply of rare - earth metals — and has been appealing to the World Trade Organization to rule against China's various export restrictions.

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.

Scarcity of the metal is a sustainability and a political issue, according to a recent article in the TimesOnline, Crunch looms for green technology as China tightens grip on rare - earth metals.