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In a step forward for efforts to acquire the metals crucial to addressing climate change, on Monday a new plant that can extract nickel and cobalt from scrap material opens in Fairfield, Ohio. The resulting metals will be used in new batteries and other clean energy markets. Extracting metals out of old material avoids the environmental damage of open pit mining and prevents the metals from ending up in the landfill. Many see this as the future, even if it takes decades to become reality.

Environment solution: New metals refinery for nickel and cobalt opens in Ohio

In a step forward for efforts to acquire the metals crucial to addressing climate change, on Monday a new plant that can extract nickel…

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UTRF Executes License Agreement with Endeavor Composites

Entrepreneurship in the hard tech space is not for the faint of heart. Milestones often take years to achieve. The University of…

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Scrubbing the Skies

Over more than a decade as an engineer, entrepreneur Keeton Ross has helped advance some of the most innovative clean energy…

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Joint programming begins for two local accelerators

Less than a week after Oak Ridge National Laboratory welcomed the 2024 cohort of its Innovation Crossroads (IC) program (see…

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Founders’ Forum event welcomes fellows for the 2024 Innovation Crossroads cohort

Six of the seven innovators selected for the 2024 Innovation Crossroads cohort at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) spent Thursday…

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