The answer lies in whether the University of Kentucky, Virginia Tech and West Virginia University, working with federal energy laboratories, a few coal companies and large manufacturers, can identify ways and locations to economically extract and process
rare earth elements from the waste streams left over from mining coal throughout Appalachia and Western Kentucky.
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.
Up until now, this means: You extract
the rare earth elements from the magnets again.
Part of that research explored methods for extracting
rare earth elements from ores found outside of China and for recovering those elements from recycled materials.
Not exact matches
Large amounts of phosphorus could be
from the moon impacting (moon surface = KREEP (potassium,
rare earth elements, phosphorus)-RRB- Even in their picture showing meteorites landing on molten surface (lol) shows a glowing molten moon — they ignore the big blob in the sky and say «meteorites» instead of «ejecta» — they should be put up against a wall and shot with silly string and cast out into the outer darkness of unemployment to wail and gnash their rotting teeth.
When a baseball flies
from the long, grotesquely concave fingers of the Boston Red Sox righthander, Martinez seems to possess the properties of misch metal, an alloy of iron and
rare earth elements.
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.
As it stands, 97 percent of the 124,000 metric tons of neodymium, dysprosium — the name means «hard to get» — and other important
rare earth elements produced each year come
from one place: China.
Visible
from space, the Bayan — Obo iron mine in Inner Mongolia is the world's largest source of
rare earths, and the Chinese companies supplying them employ acid to dissolve them out of ore rock that often also contains radioactive
elements like thorium, radium or even uranium.
Without lightweight magnets made
from alloys of
rare earth elements, computer hard - drives and iPod headphones and speakers would be impossible.
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.
With that in mind, Adachi's group created an alloy
from aluminum and samarium, a
rare -
earth element having opposite spin and orbital moments that vary with temperature.
Colello wants to add palm - sized magnet inserts, made
from the
rare earth element neodymium, into the front and sides of helmets.
When a certain amount of oxygen vacancies (4 mol %) exists in the material, the proton concentration around Zr is higher than that around the
rare -
earth element which indicates protons with less influence
from the trapping effects of the
rare -
earth element (Fig. 1).
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.
Working there, the pair has created the novel method for processing drive units and electric motors to chemically separate
rare earth elements — specifically neodymium, dysprosium, and praseodymium —
from other materials used to make the devices.
Researchers
from the KU Leuven Department of Chemical Engineering have discovered a method to separate two
rare earth elements — europium and yttrium — with UV light instead of with traditional solvents.
Several sites on the near side sampled by Apollo astronauts had rocks enriched with KREEP — for potassium (K),
rare earth elements (REE) and phosphorus (P)-- which resists crystallization
from magma and hence remains in a molten state until the entire magma ocean has solidified.
This is a
rare case where all of the
elements work in harmonious fashion to become a work of true craftsmanship of the highest order,
from Alfred Hitchcock's perfect pacing, Cary Grant's consummate romantic comedy leading man persona, Bernard Herrman's (Citizen Kane, Journey to the Center of the
Earth) sumptuous scoring, and perhaps most impressive of all, a stellar script full of quotable lines delivered by Ernest Lehman (The Sound of Music, West Side Story).
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.
Honda will reuse the
rare earth elements extracted
from batteries in magnetic motors that will power future electric and hybrid vehicles.
A key focus is to move away
from using
rare earth elements in motors.
Advancing technology has pushed up the demand for lithium and
rare earth elements, and Canadian penny stock Avalon Advanced Materials aims to profit
from both.
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.
But it's also home to 93 percent of global production of so - called
rare earth elements — including two metals essential for a wide array of green technologies,
from hybrid cars to wind turbines.