Bill Gates fund backs Robert Friedland’s pulse technologyHere's a great example of exciting new technology coming into the nickel/copper mining bizz via the billionaires. If you're not listening to Friedland then you're way beyond left field.
A climate fund founded by Bill Gates is investing in technology that uses surges of electricity to shatter rocks and mineral ores in a bid to reduce energy usage and carbon emissions at mines.
A European fund tied to Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures invested €12 million ($12.3 million) in the I-ROX pulsed-power venture with Robert Friedland’s I-Pulse Inc.
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The technology is based on short, high-intensity bursts of power to streamline crushing and grinding processes that today make up the most energy-intensive and expensive part of mining.
That would help producers of metals like copper and nickel achieve carbon-reduction targets, thereby boosting industry efforts to gain acceptance for expansions to meet growing demand in the transition away from fossil fuels.
https://www.mining.com/web/bill-gates-led-fund-backs-pulsed-power-technology-to-clean-up-mining/