An FT article last week lauded the intent of General Electric and Chesapeake Energy to form an alliance to promote the use of natural gas as a fuel for cars and trucks. The intent is to develop gas re-fueling infrastructure with a target to add 250 compressing and recharging units principally at gasoline filling stations. [...]
Professor Donald Sadoway speaking at TED2012. Photograph by James Duncan Davidson Donald Sadoway, materials chemistry professor at MIT, believes that “we need a better battery if we’re going to improve our ability to make use of electric power.” He explained his rationale, using a chalkboard, to an audience at the annual TED (Technology, Entertainment and [...]
Continued from Part One. The MOM surfaces are cast and then machined to size and finally polished to a mirror finish to create a perfect fit. The idea is, a perfect fit means the surfaces should never touch each other, according to Dr. Timothy Wright, Kirby Chair of Orthopedic Biomechanics: “Just like the cylinder in [...]
The metals industry is rightly proud and producers understandably value the successful application of metal alloys in the medical implants industry. From high-purity refining through forging and casting operations, machining, coating and treating the use of titanium, cobalt, chrome and stainless steels in addition to a number of less common metals, this has been a [...]
Continued from Part One. The Costliness of Catalysts To date, the use of PGM catalysts have made the up-front cost of fuel cells and the refurbishment of the devices over their life far too expensive to be widely adopted, but Acal Energy in the UK has developed a low-cost liquid catalyst that can be continuously [...]
Fuel cells are one of those technologies we have covered before, usually citing some manufacturer who is fan-faring a new technology purported to be game-changing for the cost structure of the hydrogen fuel cell market. So far, fuel cells are used predominantly in specialist applications such as submarines and space vehicles, or in remote areas [...]
Source: robotics.youngester.com Here at MetalMiner, we (ok, we meaning me) are fascinated by the extrapolation of automation to the historically invasive, dirty and dangerous — yet necessary and extraordinarily lucrative — coal and ore mining industry. Of course, as automation has been going on in automotive production for decades, so has extracting coal and ore [...]
Looks like ZincOx will drop the mining yoke and start pulling the recycling plow. The FT reported that the UK-based company, originally invested in zinc mining, will be shifting over to zinc recycling to become profitable again. ZincOx built a plant in South Korea, and after it finally begins producing and selling finished zinc, looks [...]
