Innovation Overground: Rare earth elements (231)

Innovation Overground

Rare earth elements are supposed to be rare, but this is getting ridiculous. Rare earth elements make highly efficient catalysts and magnets, and they’re critical resources for the electric-driven green economy. Demand is outstripping supply, and the elements are not evenly distributed across the nations of the earth. University innovation to the rescue! There are now next-generation magnets that are rare-earth element free, and in the future, these precious elements will come from a place they’re not, well, rare. Featured Technologies: Asteroid robot drill arm https://patents.google.com/patent/CN102967484A/en?oq=cn102967484; Rare earth free rare earth magnet https://patents.google.com/patent/US10332661B2/en?oq=14%2f232%2c830; More efficient rotor magnet configuration: https://www.warf.org/technologies/summary/p150363us01.cmsx Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW) Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/