The promising innovation for the wind power industry is a change in the structure of wind turbines. Rare earths (TR), a group of 17 precious minerals, are increasingly essential for modern technology and the energy transition. From mobile phones and superconductors to wind turbines and electric cars, these minerals play a vital role in making … Continue reading Wind Turbine Technology to Reduce Reliance on Rare Earths
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Ensuring access to critical materials for steel and wind energy sectors essential for EU clean-tech economy
The European wind industry and the European steel industry play a key role in enabling Europe’s clean tech economy. The upcoming EU Critical Raw Materials Act must account for the strategic role of this key value chain. It must ensure access to all critical materials for wind and steel, including rare earths, nickel, manganese, copper, … Continue reading Ensuring access to critical materials for steel and wind energy sectors essential for EU clean-tech economy
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Wind energy: Research and innovation needed to provide substitutes for rare materials used in wind turbines
On 14 November WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson spoke at the European Innovation Partnership’s annual conference on “Raw Materials for clean energy-intensive industries of the future.” European energy-intensive industries are important to the European economy, but now face challenges in making the transition to a low-carbon and circular economy by 2050. The wind power industry … Continue reading Wind energy: Research and innovation needed to provide substitutes for rare materials used in wind turbines
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Rare earths and wind turbines: A problem that doesn’t exist
There’s a persistent myth about wind turbines that just won’t seem to go away despite reality running to the contrary: they need rare earth materials to generate electricity. For those not acquainted with rare earths like neodymium and dysprosium, they’re used in products from your iPhone and computer to flat screen TVs and certain types … Continue reading Rare earths and wind turbines: A problem that doesn’t exist
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Scientists create cheaper magnetic material for electric vehicles, wind turbines
Cerium is a widely available and inexpensive rare-earth metal. Scientists have used it to create a high-performance magnet that’s similar in performance to traditional dysprosium-containing magnets and could make wind turbines less expensive to manufacture. Karl A. Gschneidner and fellow scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have created a new … Continue reading Scientists create cheaper magnetic material for electric vehicles, wind turbines
Continue readingElectric vehicle drivetrain without the need for costly rare earths
Researchers from one of Europe’s largest e-mobility projects have successfully realized a fully-integrated electric vehicle drivetrain without the need for costly rare earths in the permanent magnet synchronous motor. A prototype will be presented to the international coil winding and electrical manufacturing community at this year’s CWIEME Berlin exhibition. Four years ago researchers from … Continue reading Electric vehicle drivetrain without the need for costly rare earths
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Molycorp Chosen to Supply Rare Earths for Use In High-Efficiency Siemens Wind Turbines
Siemens AG (“Siemens”) has selected Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) (“Molycorp”) to supply rare earth materials over the next 10 years from its Mountain Pass, California facility for incorporation into Siemens’ high-efficiency, direct drive wind turbine generators. Molycorp will supply rare earth materials to Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (“Shin-Etsu”), which will produce the rare earth magnets … Continue reading Molycorp Chosen to Supply Rare Earths for Use In High-Efficiency Siemens Wind Turbines
Continue readingRare Earths Elements in High-Tech Industries
Rare earth elements are used in CMP polishing slurries and as high-k dielectrics in the semiconductor industry. . Prices of ceria, used in STI planarization slurries, have increased 1300% between 2009 and 2010 because of an embargo by China, home to 97% of the rare earth mines. This report analyzes the impact of the embargo … Continue reading Rare Earths Elements in High-Tech Industries
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China’s rare earth trade limits break global rules
The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled on Wednesday that China had acted inconsistently with WTO rules with regard to the export measures imposed on the rare earth materials. In regard of the dispute case which was brought against China by the European Union (EU), Japan and the United States in 2012 to WTO, the panel … Continue reading China’s rare earth trade limits break global rules
Continue readingRare earths – key facts
First rare-earth element discovered by Finnish chemist Johan Gadolin in 1792 after receiving a heavy mineral from Swedish village of Ytterby. Subsequent rare-earth elements identified and isolated over a period of about 150 years. The core group of 15 rare earths are known as lanthanides. These have an atomic number from 57 to 71 and … Continue reading Rare earths – key facts
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Rare earths are used in wind energy and electric vehicles
China, the world’s top rare earth producer, plans to establish a global authoritative pricing index for rare earth metals in an effort to enhance its pricing power over the resources, a leading domestic producer said on Thursday. The country’s newly launched rare earth trading exchange will team up with futures and financial information institutions to … Continue reading Rare earths are used in wind energy and electric vehicles
Continue readingMazda to Lease Electric Vehicles in Japan
Mazda Motor Corporation is independently developing an electric car with lithium ion batteries with plans to commence leasing in Japan in spring 2012.
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