Breakthroughs are helping even cement and steel go electric
Over the past few years a series of innovations are enabling the use of clean electricity to make cement and steel.
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From the lithium and cobalt needed for electric vehicle batteries to the rare earth metals which power wind turbines, procuring all of these metals comes at a cost to the environment.
New environmentally friendly method to extract metals from Li-ion batteries launched in Canada
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Vital Metals ditches Quebec rare earths projects
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