The Pain of a Nation with so much advanced scientific
knowledge during ancient time…
The pain of not getting the GPS data from US during Kargril war
and why becoming technologically independent matters for
#bharat
The Manifestation of Pain in creating the perseverance
Why people of Bharat should celebrate about the launch of satellite
navigation system Navic by ISRO?
The perspective for homegrown companies like
MapMyIndia from Navic system
Shall we think about using Navic Data in #bharat
compulsory for every player who want to work in this
field
- The security perspective
- The commercial perspective
My learning related to Technologies for such navigation
system
The border between two sets of data -
- For military purpose
- For civilian purpose
Watch here... we are unstoppable...
Latest news of ISRO/NAVIC system
Key Developments:
Work in progress…
Part 2
The latest development in the EV industry and the reason
behind it - joining the dots…
How this whole development should be taught to the
students - from a scientist of non-sense…
We will have to start with - maybe - with this…
https://dinesh.locals.com/post/2083099/2000-mules
A movie which depicted how Trump sir was preempted from the USA system by a
rouge thread - which acquired higher priority by the help from the
global unethical hackers
unlike our Hero - the founder of #wikileaks
And then the #dems were installed in the USA system
but with just one camouflage
The camouflage of a proxy design pattern…
An interface for the outside world - which will be capable of performing all nuisance
staffs including comedy for the global audience but for major political decision -
a bigger boss will be there to take charge - and actually nobody will be ble to know -
ye andar ka baat.
The great political implementation of
Proxy Design Pattern in the modern history…
And then the inevitable happened…
The USA troops were asked to vacate the Afghanistan - but again with the right kinds of
camouflage so that the act looks pretty good for the human race - at least to brainwash
the global sheepish community - through the idiot boxes fixed by the old sly fox Mr
Soros…
And then within the next couple of days - the whole Lithium mines of Afganistan were
under the control of #China -
As Lithium was the major material for EV
And with the Chinese - always ready to take the role of a - bloody merciless fu*ker
The global companies - includin the USA hero Elon Musk sir -
Aab keya hoga re…
And hence ….
Battery industry leaders answer
lithium shortage fears
mhulsey@scbiznews.com
OCT 05, 2021
A Nevada lithium mine extracts the mineral from brine pools. (Photo/File)
Demand from the energy sector began to climb for an auto and aerospace giant, and something had to give.
“Globally, everybody is going to clean energy, and the applications we are going after: it saves them about 30% in total costs of ownership, so this is an enabler for that industry,” Prasad Donti, project leader for Solvay’s thermoplastic capital projects, told GSA Business Report.
The Belgian company produces tapes and other materials made from thermoplastic composites used in several applications, including the construction of aircraft, vehicles and lithium-ion batteries.
After a few delays from COVID-19, the company opened a 27,000-square-foot facility on site of Piedmont’s former Cytec carbon fiber production plant on Sept. 16. The new lines will be used to manufacture unidirectional composite tapes from PVDF, PPS and PEEK thermoplastics.
According to CEO Mike Finelli, the Upstate’s new PVDF tape production line will be used by the oil and gas industries but at Solvay’s other locations, the plastic is shaped to bind battery cathodes, allowing them to stay powered up for longer periods of time.
Following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — home of what some speculate to be the most lithium-rich deposits on the planet — fears of a lithium shortage and price spike escalated this fall, but Finelli said he doesn’t take stock in those fears. At least not for the lithium market.
Solvay's Evolite unidirectional PVDF tape produced at the Piedmont plant. (Photo/Provided)
“I think the industry will adjust and move as it needs to,” he said. “The concern about lithium itself is not as big of an issue as it was a few years ago.” Especially as Solvay ramps up the use of a battery-recycling process that extracts minerals from used batteries, he said.
Most batteries are recycled through a process called pyrolysis, he said, where the batteries are ground up and burned. Minerals like nickel and cobalt can be extracted, but lithium is usually too challenging to save. None of the material is pure enough to be used in a battery again, however.
Solvay’s use of chemicals used during rare earth mining, however, can extract lithium, cobalt, nickel and magnesium from ground-up batteries pure enough for re-use in a battery.
“Now [we’ve] created a real circularity, which is critical for this industry, because ultimately, you want to slow down the mining of these materials,” Finelli told
GSA Business Report.
Critics of the withdrawal from Afghanistan claim the U.S. decision hands Afghan deposits to nations like China, which already operates 73% of all lithium-ion battery production, according to 2020 U.S. Senate testimony from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.
Diplomatic veterans and industry leaders drive home China’s leg up in the lithium industry, but the jury is still out on the U.S. withdrawal’s impacts on battery manufacturers — and suppliers like Solvay — in the long run.
“China is back to get everything in Afghanistan, and they’re going to get a lot,” said Michael Ussery, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco and president of one of the founding organizations of the American University of Afghanistan. “They’re dealing with a Taliban that is desperate for money, so we’re going to lose out.”
Building up to 2021, Ford had greased the tracks for lithium mining through concessions with the country and a partnership with a localized mining company. Plans were underway to build a factory in Thailand to produce batteries from the Afghan mined resources, Ussery said.
This was the year Ford would have received the concessions following a bidding process.
“It took us years to figure out how much wealth is under the ground in Afghanistan,” he said. “We should have been figuring that out at the get go.”
Solvay officials Prasad Donti and Carmelo Lo Faro discuss the new TPC product lines with Gov. Henry McMaster at the new Piedmont facility. (Photo/Molly Hulsey)
Some industry professionals question whether dated Soviet geologic records or aerial photographs of the country can be trusted in the quest for the rare earth mineral.
“To suggest Afghanistan’s lithium is a pot of gold for the Taliban, China or anyone else is just incorrect,” Simon Moores, managing director of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, said in a statement following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The U.S. is already far behind China in manufacturing of lithium batteries — 10% of global production — he said in the 2020 testimony, but the sector is still on the move in the United States.
“Production, of course, would really be years out,” Ussery said. “But I think that’s the game. The world is open for sale. China and Russia and others are out buying. I’m not sure we’re doing the same thing.”
As for Solvay, lithium shortage or not, Finelli said that stepping up the domestic production of batteries is a national security issue. At the moment, the company makes battery components in France and China but has prepared an American facility to launch a component line for the U.S. market along with future investments.
“The key thing we’re making sure legislators know about is that it’s nice to have a battery plant in the United States — that’s fantastic — but if you don’t have the raw materials on U.S. soil, you’re still going to be relying on the Chinese or someone else to bring the key raw materials in,” he said. “That’s why you need to have the whole supply chain in your country as well.”
Reach Molly Hulsey at 864-720-1223.
And now, the students of the #universe
join these dots…
from the image below…
#Enjoy
Dimag ka batti jalao…
Sabkuch dikhta nahi hain…
Most of the scientific innovation goes hand in hand with the lessons learnt from history. And history is always about the past.Maybe the reason behind latest breakthrough in the battery industry by Tesla(watch here) is the USA troops withdrawal from Afghanistan and the insecurity regarding availability of Lithium.
And now - guys - fasten your seat-belt - for the ultimate anti-climax
Start thinking about why we started the EV option in the first place - for global warming - ha ha ha
Aab maja luto - the way i thought about the whole issue while sipping the hot morning tea on the roof top of my ordinary home in Bharat
The simple solution from a simple guy to the big complicated problem - Global Warming - unlike the Global Leaders...
When the #globalleaders are so worried about high-funda stuff like #pollutoin #globalwarming
that they travel a very long distance on their #privatejets
and meet with each other
called #summit
my little brain has thought about this simple theory...
lena hai lo... nahin to bhi chalega... (#hindi)
meaning...
if you want to take it, very good... otherwise ... no problem...
with the proliferation of #internet
when from "The world is Flat"
we have come to this reality that
"The Flat is the World"
which essentially means that we really don't have to travel long distances to attend all such
#summit
for
#timepass
and
#drama
when physical movement has really become #outdated
let's bring back the old and #timetested
#bicycle
#horsecart
#bullockcart this one is exclusively for people of #bharat because we don't have many horses
#skating
#tricycle
#rickshaw
people are encouraged to add whatever they think will do
but without producing much
#gases
which might create
#gaslighting
no more #gases for the #universe
