#microsoft #cobalt 100 #arm is pretty slow. ~0.5x ST perf of EPYC 7763.
#dotnet

DR Congo may impose curbs on cobalt exports when existing ban ends http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKmN2C #DRCongo #Cobalt #Minerals #Exports #SustainableMining

→ Course dévastatrice aux minerais d’avenir
https://revue21.fr/article/mines-course-devastatrice/

« De l’extraction du lithium chilien à celle du nickel d’Indonésie en passant par le cobalt congolais, le photographe Davide Monteleone explore les sites dans lesquels les industries de la tech viennent puiser les ressources indispensables à la transition énergétique. »

#minerais #extraction #lithium #nickel #Indon #cobalt #photographe #Monteleone #tech #ressources #transition

"An area of forest the size of 18 football fields will be destroyed every day for the next 25 years to meet EU demand for Electric Vehicles under current scenarios, new study finds".

The report, commissioned by Fern to @negawatt, also identifies pathways for a much cleaner transition. A #sufficiency approach, coupled with the right choice of #battery technology (avoiding #nickel and #cobalt in particular), could reduce #deforestation by as much as 82%.

#EVs #forests

https://www.fern.org/publications-insight/an-area-of-forest-the-size-of-18-football-fields-will-be-destroyed-every-day-for-the-next-25-years-to-meet-eu-demand-for-electric-vehicles-under-current-scenarios-new-study-finds/

Corporations' lust for profit is driving modern-day slavery in #Congo. Most of the electronic devices we buy have batteries containing #cobalt, and most of that comes from Congo, much of it mined by overworked, barely-paid Congolese people. We must demand that our government and corporations create policies that require supply chains without what is essentially slave labor.

#SodiumBatteries offer an alternative to tricky #lithium

Lithium is relatively scarce and mostly refined in China. Sodium is neither

Oct 26th 2023

Excerpt: "Fortunately, lithium is not the only game in town. As we report this week, a clutch of firms are making batteries based on sodium, lithium’s elemental cousin. Since sodium’s chemical properties are very similar to those of lithium, it too makes for good batteries. And sodium, which is found in the salt in seawater, is thousands of times more abundant on Earth than lithium and cheaper to get at. Most of the companies using sodium to make batteries today are also Chinese. But pursuing the technology in the West might be a surer route to energy security than relying heavily on lithium.

"Besides its abundance, sodium has other advantages. The best lithium batteries use #cobalt and 3nickel in their electrodes. Nickel, like lithium, is in short supply. #Mining it on land is #environmentally destructive. Proposals to grab it from the #seabed instead have caused rows. A good deal of the world’s cobalt, meanwhile, is extracted from small mines in the Democratic Republic of #Congo, where child labour is common and working conditions are dire. Sodium batteries, by contrast, can use electrodes built from iron and manganese, which are plentiful and uncontroversial. Since the chemical components are cheap, a scaled-up industry should be able to produce batteries that cost less than their lithium counterparts.

"Sodium is not a perfect replacement for lithium. It is heavier, meaning sodium batteries will weigh more than lithium ones of an equivalent capacity. That is likely to rule them out in some cases where lightness is paramount. But for other applications, such as grid storage or home batteries, weight is irrelevant. Several Chinese carmakers are even beginning to put sodium batteries in electric vehicles.

"Perhaps the biggest disadvantage of sodium batteries is their late start. #LithiumIon batteries were first commercialised in the 1990s and have benefited from decades of investment. But the rest of the world is behind China on both fronts anyway. America and the European Union have announced enormous programmes of green industrial subsidies. If they are determined to bankroll batteries, some of the pot should go to sodium."

Read more:
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/10/26/sodium-batteries-offer-an-alternative-to-tricky-lithium

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/7x6JX#

#SolarPunkSunday #DeepSeaMining #NoLithiumMining #LeaveItInTheOcean #LeaveItInTheOcean #LithiumAlternatives #SodiumBatteries #RenewablesNow

As #Norway Considers #DeepSeaMining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts

In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways

by Christian Elliott, April 21, 2025

"At the #Arctic #MidOceanRidge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain unique ecosystems in the dark. Endemic species of long, segmented bristle worms and tiny crustaceans graze on bacteria mats and flit among fields of chemosynthetic tube worms, growing thick as grass. Dense banks of sponges cling to the summits and slopes of underwater mountains. And among all this life, minerals build up slowly over millennia in the form of #sulfide deposits and #manganese crusts.

"Those minerals are the kind needed to fuel the global green energy transition—#copper, #zinc and #cobalt. In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan, companies would be issued licenses to begin identifying mineral deposits as soon as #Spring2025. To some scientists who’d spent decades mapping and studying the geology and ecology of the Norwegian seabed and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, the decision seemed premature—they still lacked critical data on the area targeted for mining. The government’s own Institute of Marine Research (IMR) accused it of extrapolating from a small area where data has already been collected to the much larger zone now targeted

“ 'Our advice has been we don’t have enough knowledge,' says Rebecca Ross, an #ecologist at IMR who works on Norway’s #Mareano deep-sea mapping initiative. She says the decision was based solely on the #geology of the area. Taking high-resolution scans of the seabed and sampling its geology is the first step when research ships enter a new area, but critical biological and ecological research is more difficult and tends to come later—which is the case on the ridge area targeted for mining. Ross says it’s certain that area contains vulnerable marine ecosystems that would be affected by the light and noise pollution and sediment plumes generated by mining. The IMR estimates closing the knowledge gap on the target area could take ten years.

"The same conflict, with a partial scientific understanding misinterpreted and used to justify resource extraction, is playing out in the #Pacific, where mining pilot projects are already underway in international waters. Years before, scientists funded by industry scouted the #seabed there, discovering both valuable minerals and new forms of life."

Read more:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/as-norway-considers-deep-sea-mining-a-rich-history-of-ocean-conservation-decisions-may-inform-how-the-country-acts-180986412/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#LeaveItInTheOcean #DeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining #RecycleCopper #LifeOnEarth #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed

Exclusive- #Trump supporter #ErikPrince reaches deal with #Congo to help secure [steal] mineral wealth

Jessica Donati and Sonia Rolley
Thu, April 17, 2025

Excerpt: "Democratic Republic of Congo has vast reserves of #copper, #cobalt, #lithium and #coltan - a mineral used widely in smartphones, computers and electric vehicles - but has been plagued for decades by violence in its eastern region.

"The agreement between Congo and Prince initially involved a plan to deploy contractors to Goma, the capital of North Kivu province and the largest city in eastern Congo. But Goma is now under M23 control and that plan has been put on hold. M23 controls tracts of mineral-rich territory.

"A source close to the Congolese government told Reuters an initial deployment of Prince's advisers was expected to start in the south, far from the area controlled by #M23 and its allies.

" 'If you just look at Katanga, if you look at Kolwezi down just off the Zambian-Congo border, they claim that there's like $40 million a month in lost revenue of what's going out and what's coming in,' the source said.

"A diplomatic source also told Reuters the first stage of Prince's effort in Congo would focus on securing mines and tax revenues in copper-producing Katanga province.

"One of the sources close to Prince said advisers were expected to deploy with technical experts from a company specialised in testing and inspecting commodities. The advisers would initially target larger mines and expand as revenue collection improved.

"The source did not provide details on how the advisers would tackle corruption in the sector that has long drained revenue that would otherwise flow to the state.

"A source in the office of Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi said an agreement in principle had been signed with Prince, but the details on where and how many advisers would be deployed remained to be established."

https://www.aol.com/news/exclusive-trump-supporter-prince-reaches-142935924.html

#ErikPrinceColonialism
#PrivateArmy #Academi #ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal
#TripleCanopy #OffLeash #ProjectVeritas
#Project2025 #TigerSwan #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Colonialism #Mining #Pollution #Genocide #Corruption #CopperMining #MiningPollution #CorporateColonialism

@KarlHeinzHasliP @denki Personally, I think that standardized #batteries that get swapped would've been the solution to the charging speed problem.

#BEV|s are a problem and the #EnergyDensity and #Charging problems are hard walls that can only be circumvented (i.e. swapping fluids at a #RedoxFlow-#Battery) or ignored (i.e. #Methanol #FuelCell)...

• Personally, I think #Trolleybuses are the best option if #Trams & #Trains ain't feasible (i.e. steep grates like in #Solingen) and the few edgecases that'll never get 24/7 once per hour bus service or even an on-call minibus need to get more efficient without #ConflictMinerals from #UnfairTrade (i.e. #Cobalt) and destruction of unique habitats (i.e. #Lithium)...

Solving the #EnergyProblem isn't a technological issue, but a political one (see #DESERTEC)...

Cobalt Blue welcomes new CEO - published 16 Apr 2025 #Mining #ASX #price #Strategic #Cobalt
https://grafa.com/news/mining-cobalt-blue-welcomes-new-ceo-424297?utm_source=asx_news_en&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=424297

Using cobald as oxygen transporter in blood is way older than you think. #cobalt #oxygen #binding #alternative

https://t.co/zSqYZXvhEh

edge of the sky

#Metal #Shell #Bird #Spiral #Silver #Cobalt #Sky #Cosmos #Textures #Teal #Ivory #Orange #Blue
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

in real life: https://aieris.art/featured/edge-of-the-sky-eris-and-ai.html

#cobalt #powers #devices #ZedAnwar

L'ingénieure Aurore Stéphant étudie depuis plus de dix ans les industries minières : bientôt, la ressource sera épuisée ou inaccessible. Mais comment faire alors que les métaux sont partout, même dans nos shampoings antipelliculaires ?
#Regardez : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bh3Z78e68Q 🧶

#miniers #écrans #environnement #écologie #mine #mines #extraction #extractivisme #métal #métaux #transition #transitionÉnergétique #transitionÉcologique #detteÉcologique #lithium #cobalt #numérique #numérisation #électrique #transitionÉlectrique #voitureÉlectrique #industrie #théorieCritique #technocritique #technologie #technique #approvisionnement #matièresPremières #développement #exploitation #pollution #IA #Congo #RDC #Rwanda #AuroreStéphant

Cobalt вернул лидерство в продажах авто в Казахстане http://dlvr.it/TJnFF0 #Chevrolet #Cobalt #авто #автопродажи

Well, I just posted 2 new posts on my blog. You can go read them, if you want to. duanin2.eu/posts/matrix-shutdo… duanin2.eu/posts/cobalt-issues… #matrix #synapse #shutdown #internet #nixos #issues #captcha #cobalt #staticsitegenerator

Well, I just posted 2 new posts on my blog.
You can go read them, if you want to.

duanin2.eu/posts/matrix-shutdo…
duanin2.eu/posts/cobalt-issues…

#matrix #synapse #shutdown #internet #nixos #issues #captcha #cobalt #staticsitegenerator

Производство Cobalt выросло на 21% http://dlvr.it/TJknld #автомобили #производство #Cobalt #Узбекистан

#Macklemore did it again. Way to join #Kendrick in the rally cries for #freedom from the game & continuing to advocate for #Palestine.

https://youtu.be/sn9EKC9nqU4?si=pjRxt9_yFTW4ulW0

"They got me fucked up (Woo, woo)
And #Elon, we know exactly what that was, bruh
They got us fucked up (Woo, woo)
And Elon, we talkin' #cobalt on the next one".

#America #Music #Rap #mastodonmusic