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US advances review of Nevada lithium mine over endangered wildflower concerns

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Biden administration has taken a key step in an expedited environmental review of what could be the third lithium mine in the United States. wild flower The Bureau of Land Management last week released more than 2,000 pages of documentation on its draft environmental impact statement for the Rhyolite Ridge… Read More »

New battery material that uses less lithium was found in artificial intelligence-supported search

Microsoft announced Tuesday that a team of scientists used artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to examine 32.6 million possible battery materials in 80 hours, many of which are not found in nature; this was a mission the team had previously estimated would take 20 years. The results kick off an ambitious effort to create a… Read More »