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• The Secret To More Efficient Batteries

  Published 06 March 2018 | viewed 12,018 times

  New research published in Nature Communications reveals that manganese has a novel chemical state. According to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,…

• Tech Giants Scramble To Secure Cobalt Supply

  Published 21 February 2018 | viewed 43,993 times

  Tech giant Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) is said to be in talks to buy long-term supplies of cobalt directly from miners as a way to…

• Toyota Finds A Way To Make Cheaper EVs

  Published 21 February 2018 | viewed 11,812 times

  Toyota Motor Corp, Asia’s No.1 carmaker, has found a way to make electric vehicles (EVs) more affordable and less vulnerable to shortages in supply of…

• Bitcoin Mining To Double Iceland’s Power Consumption

  Published 12 February 2018 | viewed 8,218 times

  Mining bitcoins requires a great deal of computing power which in turn needs a lot of electricity to solve the mathematical puzzles that reward miners…

• China Looks To Create Supersized Coal Companies

  Published 14 January 2018 | viewed 13,998 times

  China said on Friday it plans to create several "super-large" coal mining companies by the end of 2020 as the world's biggest producer of the…

• The New Natural Resources Fueling The Green Revolution

  Published 13 January 2018 | viewed 10,898 times

  (Click to enlarge) Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist Records for renewable energy consumption were smashed around the world in 2017. Looking at national and state grids, progress…

• Congo’s Cobalt Tax Hike Threatens EV Market

  Published 11 January 2018 | viewed 6,522 times

  The Democratic Republic of Congo may soon more than double the tax mining companies operating in the country pay on exports of cobalt, a key…

• Is This The Beginning Of An Oil Sands Revival?

  Published 06 January 2018 | viewed 21,902 times

  New life was breathed into the Canadian oil sands with a decision by foreign-owned Harvest Operations Corp to commission its BlackGold project south of Fort…

• Oil-Rich Venezuela Is Out Of Gasoline

  Published 30 December 2017 | viewed 76,798 times

  After lining up for an entire day to get a plane ticket to visit her relatives in the western city of Mérida, Josefina García did…

• Are Higher Uranium Prices Around The Corner?

  Published 23 December 2017 | viewed 19,625 times

  The announcement made by uranium giant Cameco in November  that it’s suspending operations at its flagship McArthur River mine in northern Saskatchewan and surprisingly deep…

• Desjardins Ends Energy Loan Moratorium

  Published 11 December 2017 | viewed 5,595 times

  Canada’s Desjardins, the largest association of credit unions in North America, has decided to lift a moratorium on loans for energy and pipeline projects, noting…

• Enbridge, Michigan Reach Deal To Boost Pipeline Safety

  Published 28 November 2017 | viewed 7,527 times

  Enbridge (TSX, NYSE:ENB), Canada’s largest pipeline company, has reached an agreement with the State of Michigan on its Line 5 pipelines, which run in a tunnel under the…

• New UK Plant Aims To Turn Biomass Into ‘Coal’

  Published 27 November 2017 | viewed 10,984 times

  Scientists and industry in the United Kingdom are joining forces to build a commercial scale facility capable of transforming biomass into next-generation solid fuels with…

• EU Aims To Reform World’s Biggest Carbon Market

  Published 11 November 2017 | viewed 6,524 times

  The buzzword in the Brussels energy and climate bubble is 450, a number that is dividing European Union lawmakers and making coal-dependent Poland fume over…

• Are Coal-Fired Power Plants Set For A Boost?

  Published 31 October 2017 | viewed 12,716 times

  U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has come up with a controversial plan to slow the closure of coal-fired power plants, under the guise of stabilizing…

• North Korea Hit Hard As Coal Exports To China Fall 71%

  Published 28 October 2017 | viewed 18,528 times

  According to Chinese customs data released on Tuesday, the country imported 512,000 tonnes of coal – mainly the steelmaking variety – from North Korea in…

• The Impact Of EVs On Commodities In One Chart

  Published 26 October 2017 | viewed 12,924 times

  What would happen if you flipped a switch, and suddenly every new car that came off assembly lines was electric? It’s obviously a thought experiment,…

• VW Fails To Secure Critical Commodity For EVs

  Published 17 October 2017 | viewed 6,316 times

  In one of the clearest signs of a tight cobalt market, Volkswagen has failed to secure a long-term supply of cobalt used in electrical vehicle batteries.…

• The Capital Of Coal Is Looking For Other Options

  Published 09 October 2017 | viewed 5,594 times

  SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Taiyuan, the capital of China’s northern province of Shanxi, which is known for its coal production, has banned the sale, transport and…

• China’s EV Market Nearing 2 Percent Penetration

  Published 02 October 2017 | viewed 7,630 times

  The number of passenger vehicles sold in China surged 68 percent in August compared to the same month last year, but the really compelling statistic…