This is one of those questions that sounds simple but turns out to be delightfully complicated. On the surface, “reuse” and “recycle” seem like two steps in a neat circular loop: use a battery in a car, reuse it in a stationary system, then recycle […]
If batteries were treasure chests, urban mining would be the art of plundering cities for the gold inside them. Today’s lithium-ion batteries contain lots of valuable “treasures” — lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum and graphite — and the world wants those back. But what […]
Batteries power our phones, laptops, electric vehicles, and grid storage. But when they die, what happens to all that valuable material inside? The answer depends a lot on two things: the chemistry inside the cells (what metals and compounds they use) and the physical format […]
Barnabas Lekganyane Biography Barnabas Lekganyane was born on May 12, 1955, in Limpopo, South Africa. His family are members of the Mamabolo community in Limpopo, a Northern Sotho-speaking group. From a young age he learned the church’s ways at Moria and in many ZCC branches, […]
Microreactors are no longer a lab curiosity. They are moving into pilot plants and, for some companies, into production lines. But the move from a single tiny reactor to volumes that make business sense brings a big question: do you build many identical small units […]
Imagine a world where every dead phone, laptop, and electric vehicle battery is treated like a tiny gold mine. Instead of piles of hazardous waste, we could have a loop where valuable metals and materials are recovered and fed back into new batteries. Sounds simple, […]
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