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Simbol Materials to Extract Cheap But Precious Lithium From Geothermal Wells

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:45:52 +0000

Electric cars produced nowadays use lithium ion batteries. As this market will rise over the next few years, so will the lithium demand, ultimately driving new extraction technologies for the industry to keep pace with the demand and to lower the prices. While some 12 years ago the U.S. had been producing 75 percent of […]

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Canada's Geothermal Resources Enough to Power Everything in the Country

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:22:27 +0000

Canada may free itself from oil and gas in the not-so-distant future due to its geothermal capacity. A new report says that the country’s possible geothermal wells would not only be enough to provide power to all of its inhabitants, but could provide a million times more energy than it really needs. Geothermal energy has […]

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Indonesia Planning to Get Another 4,000 MW from Volcanic Geothermal Plants by 2014

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:10:44 +0000

Indonesia, the world's third greenhouse gas contributor, wants to diversify its clean energy production potential by using the active volcanoes in the archipelago of 17,000 islands. If finished, this would be the world's biggest geothermal energy project, adding another 4,000 MegaWatts of geothermal capacity to the existing 1,189 MW... all of this by 2014.

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