How to spend a day in Essex's best town to live in with 'quaint' shops and cafés
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Chipotle Karen wanted by police after throwing exploding burrito bowl in face of staff member at point blank range
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Fans stunned as Paul Rudd, 57, reveals the truth about his age-defying appearance as he's quizzed about Botox injections
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MIT Researchers Develop a Low-Cost Technique To Get Lithium Out of Rocks
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT News: Currently, lithium hard rock extraction involves baking the rock at over 1,000 Celsius and chemically leaching it to extract lithium. The rest of the rock is discarded. Now, a team of researchers from MIT and elsewhere has developed a low-temperature process for extracting battery-grade lithium from the most common type of lithium-bearing mineral. The process uses a liquid reagent to dissolve the rock into the useful forms of its constituent parts: not just battery-ready lithium salts, but also smelter-grade alumina and cement-ready silica. After the minerals are extracted, the solvent and reagent can be recovered and used again so waste levels approach zero. The researchers estimate the closed-loop process is half the cost of traditional lithium hard rock extraction and could make it cost-competitive with extracting lithium from brine water. "We believe this approach is the lowest-energy, lowest-cost way of getting lithium not only out of hard rock, but period," says Yet-Ming Chiang, MIT's Kyocera Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. "That's what's motivating us to scale this. It will enable the energy transition through batteries that use lithium. This was one of the goals of The Climate Project at MIT -- to work on projects that, within a short number of years, could transition from the lab to commercialization and impact."
A paper describing the process has been published in the journal Science.
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PM and Burnham turn fire on Blair: Starmer and his potential rival reject Sir Tony's warning that the Labour party should not lurch into its Left-wing 'comfort zone'
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Lottery winner who blew his £100,000 scratch card fortune and turned to drug dealing is jailed after threatening to petrol bomb a family home
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Rebekah Vardy reveals the struggle of uprooting the family to Italy as burglary at their Lake Garda apartment leaves her 'on edge 24/7'
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Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein mix business with pleasure with Caribbean work trip in new Office Romance clip
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Selena Gomez says she misses husband Benny Blanco as she shares loved-up photo eight months after tying the knot
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Wrens on Scottish islands develop GIGANTISM and are twice the size of mainland cousins
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What happened when ROBERT HARDMAN met the US ambassador to Britain... his very firm but friendly advice and how Keir Starmer 'upset' Donald Trump
You need to stop apologising,' says Warren Stephens, American ambassador to the United Kingdom. A year into the job, he is very familiar with our national tendency to say 'sorry'.
Incredible photo shows comet in front of the Milky Way over New Zealand mountain
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Christian man with a 'phobia of Pride symbols' loses tribunal after trying to sue for 'religious discrimination' when a firm wouldn't remove LGBT+ posters
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Lamppost flag campaign founder is charged with murder: Raise The Colours organiser 'punched pub owner who later died'
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Vinnie Jones' tragic past: Footballer-turned-Hollywood-star suffered suicidal thoughts during alcoholism battle and the loss of his wife Tanya before finding sobriety and love again
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Ex Strictly pro Nadiya Bychkova is 'in talks with I'm A Celebrity bosses' after being axed from BBC competition
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Home Office chiefs are spending £1.2million a year to hire boats as the Channel migrant crisis continues
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