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Batteries
What is 'bioleaching' and how could it make EV batteries more sustainable?
Electric vehicles' batteries require metals like lithium. These can be recycled from existing batteries through bioleaching, using microbes to oxidise metal.
Batteries
Metal-free batteries could make the industry more ethical and sustainable
Only a small percentage of Li-ion batteries are recycled and in several well documented cases, the cobalt needed to make them is mined using child labor.
How to Save the Planet
Battery industry at the forefront of a sustainable economy
The next generation of battery technology can help reduce global carbon emissions, improve air quality, boost employment and contribute to a greener world.
Artificial Intelligence
These robots can store energy in 'fat reserves' like humans
Scientists from the University of Michigan have created 'biomorphic batteries' that allow robots to store energy like humans.
Electricity
Scientists discover how to use bricks as batteries
A new study in Nature Communications, has worked out how to modify red bricks to store enough electricity to power devices, using nanofiber technology.
The Ocean
Deep-sea minerals could meet the demands of battery supply chains – but should they?
Deep-sea mining has attracted controversy due to concerns of potential damage to delicate ecosystems before scientists have had chance to assess what is at stake.
Decarbonizing Energy
This electric plane has flown successfully for 30 minutes – is this the future of flying?
The worlds largest all-electric plane has just completed a half an hour flight in the United States. Could this be the future of short-haul air travel?
Batteries
The cobalt mining industry is a human rights failure - here's what needs to be done
The connection between the battery driven green economy and the exploitative conditions under which its essential commodity – cobalt – is mined is well known. Here's what needs to change ...
Environment and Natural Resource Security
Zimbabwe bets big on battery storage to deal with power cuts
With drought affecting the country's hydroelectric output, industry is turning to solar panels and battery storage technology.
Sustainable Development
Here are 6 myths about the future of sustainable development
From the involvement of big players to the game-changing potential of battery technology, the circular economy is still overhauling its thinking.
Batteries
Three steps to clean up electric vehicle supply chains
Too little attention has been paid to the lithium-ion batteries powering electric vehicles and their essential ingredient – cobalt.
Batteries
Three ways batteries could power change in the world
The Global Battery Alliance's new report explains how a more sustainable value chain combined with collaborative action could unlock the potential of batteries around the world.
Batteries
Cobalt crisis: What a shortage of the metal could mean for electric cars
Due to their growing popularity, electric cars could make the price of cobalt, a crucial component in batteries, skyrocket.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
Tesla will make a second giant battery for Australia
Just a month after Tesla completed a major battery backup system in South Australia, they’re jumping into a new project in another Australian state.
Aviation, Travel and Tourism
A battery-powered electric plane has just had its first test flight
A battery-powered, single-engine electric plane has conducted a test flight in Perth, Australia.