#TransitionMetals

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

3 days ago

America's War on Iran Depends on Chinese Hardware Missiles, fighter jets, drones, aircraft carriers, submarines—they all depend on critical metals controlled by Beijing.

America Is Waging War on Iran With Chinese Hardware
Missiles, fighter jets, drones, submarines—they all depend on critical metals controlled by Beijing.
#criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling
powermetal.substack.com/p/america-is...

Amelia Rotaru

@ameliarotaru.bsky.social

1 month ago

Why does it matter?
Metal bioaccumulation patterns could become a useful indicator of EET-linked interactions & potentially an engineering ‘handle’ for optimizing power-to-gas technologies that rely on methanogens
#electromethanogenesis #Methanosarcina #transitionmetals

Synthesis Journal

@synthesis1969.bsky.social

1 month ago

✨Special Topic Dedicated To Prof. Paul Knochel✨

Exploring C–O bond #functionalization 🚀 This review by Seki & Nakao categorizes C(sp²) and C(sp³) activations, highlighting new #TransitionMetals and dual #catalysis strategies to break inert bonds⛓️

#OpenAccess for a limited time 👉 buff.ly/KRqDfG7

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

1 month ago

What Trump Really Wants From Greenland Critical metals and strategic location, yes, but also something deeper and more disturbing.

What Trump Really Wants From Greenland
Critical metals and strategic location, yes, but also something deeper and more disturbing. #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling
powermetal.substack.com/p/what-trump...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

4 months ago

One Indigenous Community's Mining Windfall Is Another’s Worry Plus: Another American Company Wants to Mine the Sea Floor; Accidental Metal Art; and more about the real costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

One Indigenous Community's Mining Windfall Is Another’s Worry
; and more in this week's Power Metal! #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling powermetal.substack.com/p/one-indige...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

4 months ago

Vapes Are Even Worse Than You Think Plus: Rare Earth Trade War Ceasefire, and more about the real costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

Vapes Are Even Worse Than You Think
Plus: Rare Earth Trade War Ceasefire, and more in the latest Power Metal newsletter! #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling powermetal.substack.com/p/vapes-are-...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

4 months ago

The Unexpected Upside of E-Waste ‘Dumping’ Plus: Lithium Boom Towns Go Bust; Magnificent Metal Masks; and more about the real costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

The Unexpected Upside of E-Waste ‘Dumping’
Plus: Lithium Boom Towns Go Bust; Magnificent Metal Masks; and more in this week’s Power Metal newsletter. #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling
powermetal.substack.com/p/the-unexpe...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

4 months ago

Electric Vehicles Are Key to Modern Warfare Plus Kashmir's rivers are running dry, Dragon of Spoons and more about the real costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

Electric Vehicles Are Key to Modern Warfare
Plus Kashmir's rivers are running dry, Dragon of Spoons, and more in this week’s Power Metal. #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling powermetal.substack.com/p/electric-v...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

4 months ago

China Clamps Down on Rare Earths Plus: Battery Recycling is Poisoning Millions of Kids; Power Metal updates; and more about the real costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

New newsletter! China Clamps Down on Rare Earths
Plus: Battery Recycling is Poisoning Millions of Kids; Power Metal updates; and more #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling powermetal.substack.com/p/china-clam...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

5 months ago

America Goes Socialist With Critical Metals Plus: Beijing Ratchets Up Rare Earth Restrictions, News About This Newsletter, and more about the real costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

America Goes Socialist With Critical Metals
Plus: Beijing Ratchets Up Rare Earth Restrictions, News About This Newsletter, and more in this week's Power Metal. #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling powermetal.substack.com/p/america-go...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

5 months ago

There Is No Green Transition Without Consequences A new book argues that simply replacing fossil-fuel extraction with critical-mineral mining is no way out of the climate crisis.

@theatlantic.com on "Extraction", "Power Metal" and other worthy critical metal books...
#powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

5 months ago

Rare Earth Mining is Imperiling One of Asia’s Most Important Rivers Plus, 'Frontiers of Green Capitalism,' big award announcement, and more about the real costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

Rare Earth Mining is Imperiling One of Asia’s Most Important Rivers
Plus, 'Frontiers of Green Capitalism,' big award announcement, and more. #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling powermetal.substack.com/p/rare-earth...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

5 months ago

Bullet Metals vs Salmon Habitat Plus: Copper vs Ocean Fish, Sea Mining Update, and I Metalli del Potere!

Bullet Metals vs Salmon Habitat
Plus: Copper vs Ocean Fish, Sea Mining Update, and I Metalli del Potere! #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling powermetal.substack.com/p/bullet-met...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

6 months ago

Can America Build Better Batteries? The US is finally investing in potentially cleaner, cheaper batteries. Plus: What's Critical? and Reader Writes

Can America Build Better Batteries? And more in the latest Power Metal: #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling powermetal.substack.com/p/building-b...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

6 months ago

America Throws Away Billions of Dollars Worth of Critical Metals Each Year And more about the human and environmental costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

America is throwing away billions of dollars worth of critical metals each year. Plus more in the latest Power Metal:
powermetal.substack.com/p/america-th... #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling

@khodov.bsky.social

6 months ago

New study in Journal of Molecular Liquids: ML predicts NMR chemical shifts for metal complexes (45Sc, 49Ti, 89Y, 91Zr, 139La). CatBoost+RDKit ≈7% RMSE (Sc/Y/La); SHAP highlights key features. Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.mo... #NMR #MachineLearning #TransitionMetals

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

6 months ago

How Empty Cans Became a $7 Million Crime And more about the real costs of critical metals, the energy transition and digital tech—and how we can do better.

How Empty Cans Became a $7 Million Crime—and more in the latest Power Metal newsletter! #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling powermetal.substack.com/p/the-7-mill...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

7 months ago

US Government Gets Into the Rare Earths Business; China Rules Recycling And more about the real costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

US Government Gets Into the Rare Earths Business; China Rules Recycling; & more in the latest Power Metal open.substack.com/pub/powermet... #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling

EUCOMC2025

@eucomc2025.bsky.social

8 months ago

We continue learning new strategies in #catalysis using #earthabundant #transitionmetals with #KarlKirchner @tuwien.at and the magic of #manganese and #iron #eucomc2025 #keynote

EUCOMC2025

@eucomc2025.bsky.social

8 months ago

Learning new tricks in organic synthesis using #earthabundant #transitionmetals including #Fe complexes in #highOxidationStates with inspiring @aliciacasitas.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social #plenary speaker #eucomc2025 #Fe #Co

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

8 months ago

Congo’s Corporate Mines Are Awful, Too; From Coal to Critical Metals And more about the human and environmental costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

Congo’s Corporate Mines Are Awful, Too; From Coal to Critical Metals; and more in latest Power Metal newsletter! #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability #recycling powermetal.substack.com/p/congos-cor...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

9 months ago

Black Market Mines Boom in Peru; An Un-Trashed Umbrella And more about the human and environmental costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

Black Market Mines Boom in Peru; An Un-Trashed Umbrella; more in latest Power Metal! #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability open.substack.com/pub/powermet...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

9 months ago

Trade War Spawns Magnet Shortage for Carmakers; Tyrannosaurus Rex-Cycled And more about the human and environmental costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

Trade War Spawns Magnet Shortage for Carmakers; Tyrannosaurus Rex-Cycled; and more in latest Power Metal open.substack.com/pub/powermet... #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability

Origami Organelles

@origamiorganelles.bsky.social

9 months ago

Make learning transition metals make sense by looking at the atoms & the metals we know! Our paper model looks at the elements at the atomic level, complete with electrons, & metals (featuring real photos) to go with them! Learn more here: bit.ly/3Mg75Zt

#EduSky #transitionmetals #iteachchem

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

9 months ago

Cracks in China’s Great Wall of Rare Earths; How To Make Batteries Cheaply And more about the human and environmental costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

Cracks in China’s Great Wall of Rare Earths; How To Make Batteries Cheaply; and more in the latest Power Metal! #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability powermetal.substack.com/p/cracks-in-...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

10 months ago

Millionaire Metal Thieves; Recycle Your Butt And more about the human and environmental costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

Millionaire Metal Thieves; Recycle Your Butt; and more in the latest Power Metal newsletter! #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability
powermetal.substack.com/p/millionair...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

10 months ago

Africa’s Homemade EVs; Starting Gun for Sea Mining? And more about the human and environmental costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

Africa’s Homemade EVs; Starting Gun for Sea Mining? and more in this week's Power Metal! #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability open.substack.com/pub/powermet...

ScienceHumor.io

@sciencehumor-io.bsky.social

10 months ago

I'm Looking At You, Chromium

I'm Looking At You, Chromium

#Chemistry #Elements #Periodictable #Electronconfiguration #Transitionmetals

sciencehumor.io/chemistry-memes/im-looki...

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

10 months ago

How Sludge and Shrimp Shells Could Power Your EV; Of Trade Wars and Sand; Brad Pitt Cameo! And more about the human and environmental costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

How Sludge and Shrimp Shells Could Power Your EV; plus a Brad Pitt cameo! And more in the latest Power Metal:
open.substack.com/pub/powermet... #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability

Vince Beiser

@vincebeiser.bsky.social

10 months ago

You Can’t Tariff Sunshine and Wind; Handling A Million Pounds of Dangerous Batteries And more about the human and environmental costs of renewable energy and digital technology—and how we can do better.

You Can’t Tariff Sunshine and Wind; Handling A Million Pounds of Dangerous Batteries; and more in latest Power Metal! open.substack.com/pub/powermet... #powermetal #criticalmetals #criticalminerals #batterymetals #transitionmetals #sustainability