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Adsorbed structure of caffeine on well-defined Pt single crystal electrodes and the activity of air electrode of fuel cell before (blue bar) and after (orange bar) caffeine modification.

The U.S. Department of Energy recently launched the Electronics Scrap Recycling Advancement Prize, which will award a total of up to $4 million over three phases for innovations that “substantially increase” the recovery and reuse of valuable materials from e-scrap.

The Biden administration is reportedly easing its push toward putting more electric vehicles on the road and cutting tailpipe emissions in the next few years.

Precious metals prices kept climbing on Wednesday amid United States Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's remarks on inflation and interest rate cuts. Palladium led the gains rising more than 10%.

Toyota has taken a slower path to electrification than its competitors, choosing instead to prioritize hybrid and hydrogen-fueled vehicles. Although this tendency won the ire of many in the industry, a recent explosion of demand within the hybrid segment has led many, including automakers who once planned to abandon the internal combustion engine (ICE) within the decade, to reconsider Toyota’s ...

Platinum remains in fundamental deficit, Northam CEO Paul Dunne emphasised at the company’s presentation, which reported a strong performance from all group operations in the six months to Dec. 31.
“In mining terms, it’s a slow-burning fuse. Ultimately, we will see a price response to this picture,” said Dunne, as he displayed a visual diagram indicating the downward outlook for platinum supply. ...

The forces involved at present point to higher prices for silver.
The Silver Institute reports the all-in sustaining cost (AISC) for producing silver jumped by 57% year over year. The industry average is now estimated at $17/oz for 2023, although some data suggest the attributable cost of producing byproduct silver from (copper, zinc, and lead mines) is much lower.

Hensel Recycling has announced that it has completed an acquisition agreement with Red Fox Resources.

Tesla has been slashing prices. Ford just cut the price of its Mustang Mach-E, too, plus it cut back production of its electric pickup. And General Motors is thinking about bringing back plug-in hybrids, possibly taking a step back from GM’s earlier commitment to shifting straight to pure EVs. And now the EPA is considering slowing down requirements for automakers to sell more electric vehicles ...

Heraeus Precious Metals and Sibanye-Stillwater are partnering to explore new applications for platinum-group metals (PGM) in the hydrogen economy, specifically how existing or new applications could profit from the unique traits of palladium. The joint aim is to develop alternative markets for palladium and support the emerging hydrogen sector with technical innovations. The project will be ...

Palladium rose by 8% on Wednesday, regaining a premium against its sister metal platinum, as some investors covered their short positions after the volatile metal held above the $900 level.

“We must stop thinking that electric cars will solve all our problems,” said Guilbeault, who was the keynote speaker at a fundraising luncheon at the Westin Montreal via live video feed from Ottawa. The event was organized by the public transit advocacy group Trajectoire Québec, and brought together about 250 key players in the fields of public transportation, municipal politics, energy and ...

The key problem with using hydrogen as an “energy carrier” is that, unlike coal or natural gas, hydrogen cannot be extracted directly in elemental form and then used. Instead, hydrogen, like electricity, must be manufactured. And in contrast to crude oil that must be refined into usable products like gasoline and diesel fuel, more energy is required to manufacture hydrogen than that hydrogen ...

The price of platinum has erased its discount to sister metal palladium for the first time in 6 years, but it's hit a new record discount against gold after the PGM metals both fell hard on concerns over 2024 supply and demand. The 'basket price' of platinum-group metals sank by 38% last year, leaving "roughly half of global PGM mine supply operating at a loss," says specialist consultancy Metals ...

Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K., a producer and recycler of precious metals, says it has established a method that can recover metals including platinum and palladium that are adhere to certain types of equipment used in semiconductor manufacturing and other processes.

Mastermelt Ltd – Precious Metal Recovery Specialist proudly announces the strategic acquisition of IEX Technologies Ltd, a leading provider of advanced ion exchange materials and process technology.
Simultaneously, we are pleased to announce the acquisition of the solvent distillation process plant from Green Lizard Technologies

"We see a positive year ahead for platinum with an anticipated deficit of 350,000 ounces in 2024, constituting 5% of the total platinum demand for the year," said independent analyst Ross Norman.

Backed by their respective expertise, the two companies aim to optimize the process of producing e-methanol from green hydrogen and CO2, paving the way for a more sustainable energy landscape. This collaboration will see BASF provide its cutting-edge SYNSPIRE catalyst technology, which Envision Energy will integrate with its innovative energy management system. The two organisations plan to ...

Thanks to generous subsidies, the world is about to start making a lot more low- and zero-carbon H2. These charts show how. To be clear, the world does make a fair amount of H2 today. It’s just overwhelmingly dirty H2, made using fossil fuels. Nearly all of the 95,000 kt of H2 produced each year comes from an emissions-intensive process called steam methane reforming, which uses fossil gas as its ...

The Royal Mint has partnered with the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Equipment Sales Authority to process redundant, non-saleable defense equipment at The Royal Mint’s new South Wales based plant each year
The Royal Mint has developed a world-first processing facility to recover gold from electronic device using patented chemistry

“There’s a lot of discussions right now around the end of the combustion engine,” Meschke said yesterday at the launch of the Macan in Singapore. “I think it could be delayed.”