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Charge Me Up! Energy Storage Development – A Fast Emerging Technology Needed for Sustainability

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The real chemical secret to make aluminum and sulfur work together this way seems to be in the type of molten salt they use as an electrolyte. BBC reported recently on how this was being applied in Finland for storing wind and solar power in a community using 100 tons of low-grade sand and a giant, silo looking storage building.

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China’s Export Restrictions on Germanium and Gallium  

Resilinc

Gallium in particular is needed to manufacture gallium arsenide , an integral chemical compound used to make semiconductors. Bindiya Vakil, Resilinc CEO and co-founder, commented on the restrictions in a recent Institute for Supply Management webcast. “In In this fight, we only lose.

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3 Uses of IoT Tech Spurring Sustainability in Supply Chains

GlobalTranz

By customizing its manufacturing strategy, the company has been able to avoid discarding tires in landfills and has thereby spared us the environmental consequences of tires breaking down and releasing toxic chemicals into the atmosphere. billion tons of oil in 2011, worth approximately $743 billion.