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 by AFP Staff Writers Paris (AFP) Oct 24, 2022
Industrial metals firm Imerys said Monday it plans to open one of Europe's largest lithium mines in central France by 2027 to help support the continent's move towards electric vehicles. France's Imerys said its surveys had confirmed sufficient concentrations and quantities of lithium at the site in the central Allier region to produce 34,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide per year from 2028, enough to equip 700,000 electric vehicles annually. Lithium is a key component of batteries for electric vehicles. Europe mines and processes little of the mineral, however, raising questions about whether it is trading dependence on crude oil for lithium as it phases out the sale of cars with internal combustion engines by 2035. Imerys said the mine will "increase Europe's industrial sovereignty at a time when car and battery manufacturers are heavily dependent on imported lithium, which is a key element in the energy transition". The approximately one-billion-euro ($1 billion) project will mine lithium underground to limit environmental damage on the surface and meet responsible mining standards. Imerys said it aims for the project to produce lithium with less than half of the CO2 emissions of typical existing hard rock lithium operations by using an electric mining fleet, low carbon transportation options and low carbon electricity. The mine is expected to operate for 25 years. im/rl/jv
Reprogrammable materials selectively self-assemble Boston MA (SPX) Oct 21, 2022 While automated manufacturing is ubiquitous today, it was once a nascent field birthed by inventors such as Oliver Evans, who is credited with creating the first fully automated industrial process, in flour mill he built and gradually automated in the late 1700s. The processes for creating automated structures or machines are still very top-down, requiring humans, factories, or robots to do the assembling and making. However, the way nature does assembly is ubiquitously bottom-up; animals and plan ... read more
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